On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, delegates from the Penobscots agreed to “willing[ly] subject ourselves” to the American cause
“and all that we shall Worship or obey will be Jesus Christ, and Gen.l Washington.” The Penobscot representatives joined a delegation of ten representatives from the Maliseet (or St. John’s) and the Mi’kmaq tribes led by Ambroise Saint-Aubin of the Maliseet Nation, that had already pledged 60 Maliseet warriors and more than 280 Mi’kmaq warriors to fight for the Americans.

Sources: https://washcollreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sce-kitri-post.pdf; https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/saint_aubin_ambroise_4E.html

On this day 250 years ago in Virginia, probably at his home Edmundsbury in Carolin County, Edmund Pendleton, President of the Virginia Convention, wrote to Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia:

Ere this reaches you, you’l have been furnished with all Our doings of importance at the last Convention, Our Mode of Government and the several Elections to Offices. I expected you had in the Preamble to our form of Government, exhausted the Subject of complaint against Geo. 3d. and was at a loss to discover what the Congress would do for one to their Declaration of Independance without copying, but find you have acquitted your selves very well on that score; We are now engaged beyond the Power of withdrawing, And I think cannot fail of success in happiness, if we do not defeat our selves by intrigue and Canvassing to be uppermost in Offices of Power and Lucre. . . . I wish you could be here, if you could be Spared from Congress, indeed you must be Spared, to sustain one of the Important Posts in the Judiciary, where I most fear our deficiency, and conceive it to be of the greatest importance in the rearing our Commonwealth. Let but wisdom and Integrity fill those Offices, and we cannot fail of Peace and Security. You are also wanting much in the Revision of our Laws and forming a new body, a necessary work for which few of us have adequate abilities and attention. We are now engaged in the preparitory Steps for choosing Senators next month, to compleat our Legislature against October, when I suppose we shall have a full meeting and long Session. 

Sources: “Edmund Pendleton to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0191. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1, 1760–1776, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, pp. 471–472.]; https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib000169/

Disclaimer — Edmund Pendleton is my closest connection to the Founding Fathers as his sister was one of my ancestors, but he later was in opposition to Jefferson and Madison regarding the separation of church and state in Virginia, and I very much prefer Jefferson and Madison on that issue.