On this day 250 years ago in Connecticut, General George Washington and his staff arrived in New Haven, on their ride from Boston to New York. They had started their day in Lyme, Connecticut where they had spent the previous night at the home of John McCurdy. The John McCurdy House is still standing in Lyme.

Sources: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.georgewashington00joh/?sp=88&st=image&r=-1.052,0.121,3.104,1.585,0; https://historicbuildingsct.com/the-john-mccurdy-house-1700/

On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Congressman William Whipple of New Hampshire wrote to Joshua Bartlett:

I hope the late act of the British Parliament will reconcile everybody to an eternal separation from a People abandoned to every vice & whose Rulers make cruelty & injustice the Guide of all their actions.   . . . I see no alternative but Freedom or Slavery.  Providence has kindly offered us our choice & shall we Hesitate which to accept I hope not.  God forbid that an American should be animated with so Base a Soul as not to embrace the former with Eagerness.

Source: https://americanfounding.org/entries/second-continental-congress-april-11-1776/