On this day 250 years ago, Reverend Ezra Stiles of Newport, Rhode Island recorded in his diary that he had met in Wrentham, Massachusetts with William Goddard,

the Printer & now Surveyor General of the Post office in America, & very much acquainted with . . . the Characters in the Continental Congress . .. [and their] supposed Disposition & Vote on the future Question of Independency

Stiles recorded the predicted vote of each Member of the Congress. Based on his tally, Stiles calculated that 10 colonies favored independency, but New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were opposed.

Source: Stiles at 635-36 accessed at https://archive.org/details/diaryezrastiles01stiluoft/page/n647/mode/2up

On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress unanimously chose Timothy Edwards of Stockbridge, Massachusetts to be the Indian Commissioner for the Northern Indians.

Source: https://americanfounding.org/entries/second-continental-congress-november-24-1775/