From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. On Friday last, at Messrs. Sharp and Curtenius’s furnace, in New York, a cylinder was cast for the steam-engine of the waterworks now in course of erection in that city. This is the first performance of the kind ever…
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Disturbance at Boston
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 20. –A little after ten o’clock this evening, two young men passing down Milk street, near the entrance into Long Lane, they were accosted by an officer, not in the English, but as they supposed in another language,…
Enemies of Liberty
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Another writer observes, that the cause of the enemies of American liberty must needs be in a most desperate condition, since they have recourse to the most infamous acts and falsehoods to carry their point. Of these he instances…
The Grey Maggot
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 25. –A despicable pamphlet lately published in Boston, now commonly called the “Grey Maggot,” has asserted, “That the only apology which could be made for the conduct of the Continental Congress in adopting the Suffolk resolves, was that…
An Imaginary Speech
To the Printer of the Public Advertiser. SIR, In a late Debate, a certain North British Colonel thought proper to recommend himself to the Court, by grossly abusing the Americans. I send you the Answer I should have made to him had I been present when he uttered his Invective, and I rely upon it,…