From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 10. –Yesterday the Falcon sloop-of-war, under the command of Captain Lindzee, hove in sight of Gloucester, Cape Ann, 1 and seemed to be in quest of two schooners from the West Indies, bound to Salem, one of which…
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Bombardment of Stonington Harbor
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 31. –Yesterday morning a tender chased into Stonington harbor two small sloops, which had a number of people on board bound to Block Island. They had but just time to get on shore before the tender came in,…
Female Infantry
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 17. –This morning, at East Hartford, Connecticut, sallied from the Lyon Tavern and its dependencies, a corps of female infantry, of twenty rank and file, with a flank guard of three chosen spirits of the male line, and…
Boston Liberty Tree Cut Down
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. September 1. –The enemies to liberty and America, headed by Tom Gage, lately gave a notable specimen of their hatred to the very name of liberty. A party of them, of whom Job Williams was the ringleader, a few…
Marriage of John Hancock
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. This evening was married, at the seat of Thaddeus Burr, Esq., at Fairfield, Connecticut, by the Reverend Mr. Elliot, the Hon. John Hancock, Esq, President of the Continental Congress, to Miss Dorothy Quincy, daughter of Edmund Quincy, Esq., of…