To David Hartley Philadelphia, Oct. 3, 1775. I wish as ardently as you can do for peace, and should rejoice exceedingly in co-operating with you to that end. But every ship from Britain brings some intelligence of new measures that tend more and more to exasperate; and it seems to me that until you have…
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Molasses and Flagging
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The following droll affair lately happened at Kinderhook, New York. A young fellow, an enemy to the liberties of America, going to a quilting frolic, where a number of young women were collected, and he the only man in…
Hanovarian Mercenaries
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The following is said to be the plan which will be put in execution for reducing America: –Ten thousand Hanoverians are to be taken into British pay, the expenses to be defrayed out of duties to be laid by…
The British Navy – Captain Vandeput
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. September 18. –We are much astonished at the behavior of some of those captains of men-of-war, who are stationed upon our coasts. They seem greedily to anticipate the horror of blood shedding; and although war is not yet proclaimed,…
Account of the Devices on the Continental Bills of Credit
To the Printers of the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE. GENTLEMEN, No Explanation of the Devices on the Continental Bills of Credit having yet appeared, I send you the following Account of them, with my Conjectures of their Meaning. CLERICUS. An emblematical device, when rightly formed, is said to consist of two parts, a body and a mind,…