On this day 250 years ago in Baltimore, Maryland,

the DECLARATION of the INDEPENDENCY of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA was read at the Court-House to a numerous and respectable body of Militia and the company of Artillery, and other principal inhabitants of this town and country, which was received with general applause and heart felt satisfaction: And at night the town was illuminated, and, at same time, the Effigy of our late King was carted through the town and committed to the flames amidst the acclamations of many hundreds.—The just reward of a Tyrant.

Source: Dunlap’s Maryland Gazette (July 30, 1776) quoted in https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/blog/july-proclamations

On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress issued instructions to the Commissioners for Indian Affairs for the Middle Department

to thank Cayashuta, in the name of the great council fire, for his friendly conduct at Niagara, communicated by Peter Richman (whose Indian name is Queda) and to inform him, that it would be very agreeable to Congress to receive a visit from him.

By “Cayashuta” the Congress was referring to the Seneca chief Guyasuta who had made promises to keep the Iroquois and Mingo neutral in the war between the British and Americans. However, within a year Guyasuta would be joining Seneca raids against the Americans and would fight in alliance with the British for the remainder of the War.

Sources: Vol. V, Journals of the Continental Congress at p. 621 accessed at https://archive.org/details/us_congress_continental/lljc005/page/621/mode/2up; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyasuta; The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania or A Story of the Part Played by the American Indian in the History of Pennsylvania, Based Primarily on the Pennsylvania Archives and Colonial Records, and Built Around the Outstanding Chiefs, Butler, Penn.: Zeigler Printing Co. (1927) at pp. 402-03 accessed at https://archive.org/stream/indianchiefsofpe00sipe/indianchiefsofpe00sipe_djvu.txt