From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 11.—A writer in the New Jersey Gazette of this date, gives the following annotations upon “his most gracious Majesty of most gracious Great Britain’s most gracious speech:”1 “It is a great satisfaction to me that I can have…
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Attempt to Surprise Captain lee
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 21.—Captain Lee,1 who has for some time past been posted at Valley Forge with his troops, has added another cubit to his fame. General Howe, longing to rob the Americans of this gallant young officer, whose attention in…
Furgler the Hermit
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 20.—Yesterday, died, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, Francis Furgler, the hermit, who existed alone twenty-five years, in a thick wood about four miles from Burlington, in New Jersey, through all the inclemencies of the season, without…
Queen’s Birthday celebrated in New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Yesterday, being the anniversary of the birth of her royal Majesty, the queen, the same was celebrated with great rejoicing in New York. A correspondent in Rivington’s Gazette, gives the following account of the evening’s entertainment: “As the loyalty…
The Connecticut Fifer Boy
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. When Colonel Webb, with some others, were taken in a late expedition to Long Island, a little fifer of the smallest size, belonging to the State of Connecticut, was made prisoner with them, and carried into Rhode Island. The…