On this day 250 years ago in New York City, the First Provincial Congress of New York convened with Peter Van Brugh Livingston as president.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Provincial_Congress; https://www.varsitytutors.com/earlyamerica/early-america-review/volume-7/new-york-city-during-the-revolution; https://archive.org/details/journalsofprovin01newy/page/6/mode/2up
On this day 250 years ago at Tarpaulin Cove, the HMS Falcon captured an American brig. However, two marines and the purser’s steward of the Falcon deserted to the Americans.
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And on this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote:
The Spirit that prevails among Men of all degrees, all ages and sex’es is the Spirit of Liberty. For this they are determined to risk all their property and their lives “nor shrink unnerv’d before a tyrants face But meet this louring insolence with Scorn.”
Source: “Abigail Adams to Edward Dilly, 22 May 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0135. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 1, December 1761 – May 1776, ed. Lyman H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963, pp. 200–204.]
On This Day In The Revolution 
One response to “On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — May 22, 1775”
I have to wonder if the British deserters were willing to fight alongside the Americans. If so, they truly must have loved the freedom available in this country to risk their lives in war. They were already risking their lives if caught but the draw of freedom burns bright in the breasts of many.
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