On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress accepted Benjamin Harrison’s credentials to take Thomas Jefferson’s seat as a delegate from Virginia in the Congress .

Source: Journals of the Continental Congress, Vol. VI at pp. 922-23 accessed at https://archive.org/details/journalofhouseof1776virg/page/40/mode/2up

On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the General Assembly of Virginia resolved that

Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Pendleton, George Wythe, George Mason, and Thomas Ludwell Lee, be appointed a committee to revise the laws of this commonwealth.

Sources: Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia https://archive.org/details/journalofhouseof1776virg/page/40/mode/2up at p. 41; https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%225%20November%201776%22&s=1111311111&r=9 at n.4