On this day 250 years ago, the inhabitants of Tryon County (modern day Lincoln and Rutherford Counties), North Carolina signed the “Tryon Resolves.” The signers of the Tryon Resolves vowed to make “recourse to Arms, for the preservation of those Rights & Liberties which the principles of our Constitution and the Laws of God Nature & nations have made it our Duty to Defend.”

Sources: https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/08/the-tryon-county-patriots-of-1775-and-their-association/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryon_Resolves; https://lincolnherald.com/story/250th-anniversary-of-the-first-provincial-congress-the-committees-of-safety

Also on this day 250 years ago in Bermuda, Patriots on board the South Carolina Navy’s Lady Catherine broke into the powder magazine on the island and seized. 3,150 pounds of of gunpowder. South Carolina then sent the much-needed gunpowder to the Continental Army outside of Boston.