On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Third Virginia Convention resolved to draft

ordinances For appointing a Committee of Safety, for the more effectual carrying into execution the several rules and regulations established by this Convention for the protection of this colony, — To encourage the making saltpetre, gunpowder, lead, the refining sulphur, and providing arms for the use of this colony,—For the election of delegates and ascertaining their allowances, and also for regulating the election of committee-men in the several counties and corporations within this colony, and for other purposes therein mentioned,—-To establish a general test,—-and for a call of the Convention

In other words, the Convention was drafting laws to govern the Commonwealth in wartime.

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

And on that day in London, Richard Penn and Arthur Lee attempted to deliver the Olive Branch Petition to Lord Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the American Colonies, for him to present to the King. George III would refuse to receive the Petition.

Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/olive-branch-petition-facts/; https://archives.nypl.org/mss/22996