On this day 250 years ago in New Bern, the Second North Carolina Provincial Congress convenes, notwithstanding Royal Governor Josiah Martin’s Declaration that the Congress was “in every light illegal, and inconsistent with good order and government.” John Harvey is elected Moderator of the North Carolina Congress.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_North_Carolina_Provincial_Congress; https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_revolution_government_1775.html

On this day 250 years ago in Newport, Rhode Island, Ezra Stiles records in his diary that

This day there was a general Muster of the 4 Companies of the Newport Militia & the Light Infantry. The 4 Companies consisted of about 250 Soldiers, the Light Infantry 47. So there were about 300 in Arms. Mr Att” Gen. Marchant presented the Light Infantry with a Pair of Colours, delivering an handsom spirited Address or Oration to them at giving the Colours. There was a vast Concourse of pple. The Light Infantry made a fine Appearance, & performed the Exercise and Manoeuvres with a Dexterity equal to any Regulars. They gained themselves great Honor

Source: https://archive.org/details/diaryezrastiles01stiluoft/page/n541/mode/2up

On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, John Adams writing under the pseudonym “Novanglus” publishes a lengthy essay refuting the arguments of “Massachusettensis” that had cited the subordination of Ireland and Wales to the rule of the English Parliament as precedent binding the American colonies. Adams concludes his essay:

In the history of Ireland and Wales, though undoubtedly conquered countries, and under the very eye and arm of England, the extreme difficulty, the utter impractability, of governing a people who have any sense, spirit, or love of liberty, without incorporating them into the state, or allowing them some other way, equal priviledges may be clearly seen. Wales was forever revolting for a thousand years, untill it obtained that mighty blessing. Ireland, has been frequently revolting, altho’ the most essential power of a supreme legislature, that of imposing taxes has never been exercised over them, and it cannot now be kept under, but by force, and it would revolt forever, if parliament should tax them. What kind of an opinion then must the ministry entertain of America? When her distance is so great, her territory so extensive, her commerce so important, not a conquered country, but dearly purchased and defended? When her trade is so essential to the navy, the commerce, the revenue, the very existence of Great-Britain, as an independent state? They must think America inhabited by three million fools and cowards.

Source: “X. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, 3 April 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-02-02-0072-0012. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 2, December 1773 – April 1775, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977, pp. 355–363.]