On this day 250 years ago Major General Philip Schuyler wrote to General Washington from German Flatts in the Mohawk Valley of New York with intelligence (that turned out to be faulty for the most part) about the Iroquois:

Mr [Peter] Ryckman on his Return from Niagara past thro’ most of the six Nations, and he and his party were at every one of their Villages entertained with the Accounts brought by those that have lately returned from New York and Philadelphia, and such is the Idea they have conceived of our power and Resources that the Opinion that we shall be an Over-Match for our Enemies begins pretty generally to prevail—If this be true, and I have no Reason to doubt it, we shall meet with no Trouble from the Savages.

Source: https://big250.substack.com/p/a-delegation-from-the-iroquois

On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Virginia, Dixon & Hunter’s Virginia Gazette published the Declaration of Independence. Purdie’s Virginia Gazette had published an excerpt from the Declaration the day before but did not publish the full text until its next issue the following week.

Source: Display at the David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello