On this day 250 years ago on board the HMS Scorpion off the mouth of the Cape Fear River just below Wilmington, North Carolina, Royal Governor Josiah Martin issued a proclamation asking all Loyalists to rally to “His Majesty’s Royal Standard” and assemble at Brunswick, North Carolina. From there they would march on Wilmington and meet a British fleet that was on its way to North Carolina. Martin also named over a dozen Loyalists as colonels and directed each to raise a company of soldiers, and to seize from Patriots “arms, ammunition, provisions, horses and carriages.” 

Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2017/01/north-carolina-patriot-women-talked-back-tories/#_ednref1; Smithsonian, The American Revolution, A Visual History, New York: DK Publishing, 2016 at p. 107

And on this day in New York, Col. Henry Knox and his noble train of artillery had crossed the Hudson River and were passing through East Greenbush on their way into the Taconic Mountains and Massachusetts. Knox wrote in his diary that he had “Climb’d mountains from which we might almost have seen all the Kingdoms of the Earth.”

Souurces: https://allthingsliberty.com/2017/01/north-carolina-patriot-women-talked-back-tories/#_ednref1; Smithsonian, The American Revolution at p. 102