On this day 250 years ago in New York City, General George Washington met with the New York Provincial Congress. As part of his address, Washington pledged:

When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in that happy hour when the establishment of American liberty, on the most firm and solid foundations, shall enable us to return to our private stations in the bosom of a free, peaceful, and happy country.

Source: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/new-york-provincial-congress

On this day 250 years ago from the siege lines around Boston, Native American warriors of the Stockbridge Company of Mohegans were again ambushing British soldiers. That day “Two Indians went down near Bunker Hill and killed a sentry.”  The previous day, they had “killed more of the British guard” and four days earlier “two Stockbridge Indians killed four British regulars” according to one report although Brigadier General Horatio Gates in his official report claimed “the Stockbridge Indians had ambushed a party of the Ministerial Army & Kill’d Two Officers & Sixty Men.”

Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/02/the-stockbridge-mohican-community-1775-1783/#_edn21 quoting Richard Frothingham, History of the Siege of Boston and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851), 213, Andrew McFarland Davis, “The Employment of Indian Auxiliaries in the American War,” English Historical Review Vol. 2: No. 8 (October 1887): 715 & Miles, “Mohican Warriors: A Documentary History, 1747-1813,”