On this day 250 years ago, Col. John Daggett of the Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Militia led a raid from Attleborough (now Attleboro), Massachusetts to the nearby town of Assonet to seize gunpowder Loyalists had stored there.

Source: https://www.drjosephwarren.com/2013/07/attleboros-solemn-league-and-covenant/

On that same Sunday in Boston, during services at the Brattle Street Meeting, Joseph Warren warned Rev. Samuel Cooper, that the British planned to arrest leading Patriots including Cooper. The next day Rev. Cooper and his wife fled Boston.

Source: Philbrick, Nathaniel, Bunker Hill, A City, a Siege, a Revolution, Viking, New York, 2013 at p. 111

Also on that day in Concord, Governor Gage’s spy within the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Dr. Benjamin Church, wrote Gage that “people without doors are clamorous for immediate commencement of hostilities” but the Congress was not ready to take “decisive measures.”

Source: Philbrick, Bunker Hill at p. 113.