On this day 250 years ago in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John that she

heard yesterday that a Number of Gentlemen who were together at Cambridge thought it highly proper that a Committee of Ladies should be chosen to examine the Torys Ladies, and proceeded to the choise of 3 Mrs. [Hannah] Winthrop, Mrs. [Mercy Otis] Warren and your Humble Servant.

Sources: “Abigail Adams to John Adams, 21 April 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0254. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 1, December 1761 – May 1776, ed. Lyman H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963, pp. 389–391.]; Roberts, Cokie, Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies―Empowering Stories of Heroic Women Who Changed the Course of History During the American Revolution at p. 59.

On this day 250 years ago three miles northeast of Fort Johnson, South Carolina, the brig Comet of the South Carolina Navy under Captain Joseph Turpin with the captured prize St. James and its cargo of sugar and rum were chased by the British sloop HMS Falcon and her tender HMS General Clinton. The Comet escaped into Charlestown Harbor but the St. James ran aground on a sandbar. The Comet‘s guns drove off the General Clinton on its first attempt to seize the St. James but Captain Turpin had to order the St. James burned to prevent its capture by the British.

Sources: https://revolutionarywar.us/year-1776/; https://kinsmenandkinswomen.com/2016/08/25/the-history-of-hm-sloop-of-war-falcon/