On this day 250 years ago near Seneca town in South Carolina, a detachment of the 3rd South Carolina Rangers was attacked by a party of Cherokee Indians and driven from their camp.

Source: https://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/1775-skirmish/

On that same day in North Carolina, the Rowan County Regiment was formed.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_County_Regiment

On this day 250 years ago in the siege lines around Boston, Abraham Naunauphtaunk and William Notonksion, Sr., both of the Stockbridge Indians, were mortally wounded, and would become the first Native American Patriots to die in the Revolutionary War. 

Source: https://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/blog/2022/06/28/bidwell-lore-captain-william-goodrich-part-iv/

And on this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry wrote George Washington on behalf of the Massachusetts Committee of Supplies to report that although Washington believed that Massachusetts had over 300 barrels of gunpowder, in fact

here remains but 36 barells in Store of the Quantity collected from the Towns in this Colony & recd from the others this side Maryland.

there are also about two Tons of Lead & not any Flints in Store, of which We think it necessary to give immediate Information.

Sources: “Massachusetts Committee of Supplies to George Washington, 1 August 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0136. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, pp. 211–212.]; https://250andcounting.com/2025/08/01/august-1-1775-the-ammunition-crisis/