On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress approved

a resolve for supplying the Penobscot Indians with gunpowder . . . as follows, viz. :

Whereas, application has been made to this Congress, by Capt. John Lane, agent for the Penobscot tribe of Indians, for a small quantity of powder, for supplying said Indians : therefore. Resolved, that the committee of supplies is hereby directed to deliver, out of the public stores of this colony, to the said John Lane, twenty-five pounds of powder, for the use aforesaid,

Source: Jounals of the Massachussetts Provincial Congress at 480 accessed at https://archive.org/details/journalsofeachprma00mass/page/480/mode/2up

And on this day 250 years ago in the siege lines around Boston, an American soldier recorded in his journal one of the small skirmishes occurring each day in the siege of Boston:

night being clear set out for Long Island and arived there in a Short
time and then they Plundered the island and took from thence 19 head of horned cattle and a number of Sheep and three Swine also eighteen priseners and amongst them were three women.

Source: The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758–1775. compiled by Abraham Tomlinson and published in 1855. Reprinted by Da Capo Press, 1971 accessed at https://www.npshistory.com/publications/bost/roxbury-boston-siege.pdf