On this day 250 years in Philadelphia, John Jay from New York and Thomas Stone from Maryland arrived to join their delegations in the Continental Congress and

The Congress accepted the credentials Lyman Hall as a delegate from the parish of St. John’s in the colony of Georgia.

Lyman Hall was the first representative from Georgia in Congress.

Sources: https://americanfounding.org/entries/second-continental-congress-may-13-1775/; Cashin at p. 124; https://250andcounting.com/

On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, much of the New England Army of Observation under the command of General Artemas Ward marched from Cambridge to Charlestown directly across Back Bay from Boston. When the British did not respond, Ward led most of the army back to Cambridge but Brigadier General Israel Putnam led roughly 3,000 men on to Charlestown Heights, essentially daring the British to attack.  At the end of the day Putnam marched his men back to their original positions.

Sources: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/siege-of-boston/; https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/american-revolutionary-war-timeline-1775-january-june/