On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Third Virginia Convention elected Robert Carter Nicholas as Chair of the Convention succeeding Peyton Randolph, who retired from the Convention due to poor health. The Convention also elected Edmund Pendleton, George Mason, John
Page, Richard Bland, Thomas Ludwell Lee, Paul Carrington, Dudley
Digges, William Cabell, Carter Braxton, James Mercer and John Tabb
as the members of the Committee of Safety that would govern Virginia when the Convention adjourned.

Source: https://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/ProceedingsOfTheConventionOfDelegates17July1775.pdf

And on that day in the British prison in Boston, Peter Edes recorded in his diary that “Phineas Nevers, a prisoner taken at Bunker Hill, died.” Private Phineas Nevers was from Hollis, New Hampshire, and served in Captain Dow’s Company of Colonel Prescott’s New Hampshire Regiment. We should remember him today for his sacrifice for American Liberty.

Sources: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Peter_Edes_Pioneer_Printer_in_Maine_a_Bi/lvU-AAAAYAAJ?q=&gbpv=1#f=false; https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=191832