On this day 250 years ago in Wilmington, the North Carolina Light Dragoons was formed as part of the Province’s militia.

Source: https://www.revwartalk.com/corps-of-north-carolina-light-dragoons/

On this day 250 years ago in Concord, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress directed the Committee of Safety to form six companies of artillery.

Sources: The Journals of each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts at 141-42 accessed at https://archive.org/details/journalsofeachprma00mass/page/140/mode/2up?view=theater; Raphael, Ray, The First American Revolution, New York, The New Press, 2002 at 194