From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 17. –Last night, a detachment of the Queen’s rangers, and New York companies, with twenty of the Hessian troops, and a subaltern, under the command of Captains John Branden and Archibald Campbell, were ordered out from New York…
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Skirmish at Punk Hill
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 9. –Yesterday, the British, supposed to be about three thousand, came out from Amboy, and posted themselves on Punk Hill. They brought artillery and a number of wagons, as if to forage, though there were none left in…
Behman’s Seven
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 15. –I am no prophet, nor the son of a prophet, yet I believe in the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments, and also in some other prophecies; nor can I forbear thinking there is something prophetic…
Samuel Auchmuty
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 6. –Day before yesterday, departed this life, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, the Reverend Samuel Auchmuty, D. D., Rector of Trinity Church in New York, a gentleman greatly beloved and respected. He was born at Boston,…
State of the American Army
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 1. –A deserter from the rebel army at Westchester, who came into New York this morning, says that the Congress troops are suffering extremely for food and rum; that there is not a whole pair of breeches in…