On this day 250 years ago, in Williamsburg, Virginia Governor Lord Dunmore issued a proclamation prohibiting the Second Virginia Convention from electing delegates to the Second Continental Congress. He was too late, the Virginia Convention had already elected its full delegation to Congress and had adjourned the day earlier, not that they would have heeded Dunmore’s proclamation anyway.

Source: https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/oc/stc/entries/a-proclamation-to-virginia-march-28-1775; https://250andcounting.com/tag/dunmores-proclamation/

Also on this day 250 years ago from the Long Island on the Holston River (present-day Kingsport, Tennessee), after concluding its purchase from the Cherokee Nation, Richard Henderson led 30 men on horseback following the Wilderness Road blazed by Daniel Boone into Kentucky.

Source: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ky-wildernessroad/

And on the same day in Charles Town, South Carolina, John Stuart, Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Southern District, wrote Lord Dartmouth about the proclamations issued by Governors Martin and Dunmore for the arrest of Henderson and his associates for violating the British Government’s prohibition on settlements west of the Appalachians in territory reserved for the Native Americans. Stuart also wrote that he would work to keep the Indians attached to the King “and in a temper to be always ready to act in the Service.” Unfortunately for Stuart, this letter would come back to haunt him. Cashin at pp.128-29; https://www.npshistory.com/publications/usfs/region/8/daniel-boone/history/chap8.htm