On this day 250 years ago in Bedford, New Hampshire, Matthew Patten recorded in his diary:

Shed forged a Guard and some Rods for pining on the Quills and Stock on the Gun and I attended a Meeting of the town on our affairs of the country and Capt Moor had a training and our John and John Dobbin came home

With this one long sentence fragment, Patten recorded without punctuation three different ways he and his family contributed to the Revolution on that day: he worked on making a musket; he participated in the Town Meeting making plans for Revolution; and his son came home from marching to Cambridge to join the New England Army besieging Boston. His son would soon return to the Army to be wounded at Bunker Hill, and to die from smallpox in the service of his country.

Source: https://archive.org/details/diaryofmatthewpa00patt/page/342/mode/2up

On this day 250 years ago at Hanover Court House in Virginia, Henry issued a call to arms 160 mounted militiamen responded to Patrick Henry’s call to arms and began their ride to Williamsburg to recover the gunpowder Governor Dunmore had seized from the Powder Magazine.

https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/events/virginias-response-to-the-powder-incident/

Tonight, May 2, 2025 and over the weekend, there will be 250th anniversary reenactments of Patrick Henry’s call to arms and the ride to Williamsburg.

ämericanhistorycentral.com/entries/american-revolutionary-war-timeline-1775-january-june/; https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/events/virginias-response-to-the-powder-incident/