From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. We are constantly agitated by hearing complaints from different persons of the more than savage barbarity of the soldiers in Boston, encouraged and often joined and headed by the officers. They are now become so insolent that it is…
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A Royal Mob
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 9. –As the populace of Boston have thought fit to repeal the tarring and feathering act, the king’s troops have thought fit to revive the said statute; and in consequence of such a determination, to-day they gave us…
Affair at the Liberty Pole
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 10. –Among numerous misrepresentations in Mr. Rivington’s Gazetteer of yesterday, are many notorious ones, mixed with sundry absolute falsehoods, in a paragraph to which the names of William Cunningham and John Hill are affixed as subscribers. In this…
Westminster Massacre
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 14. –Yesterday afternoon several riotous and disorderly persons, to the number of between eighty and ninety, assembled at Westminster, Cumberland county, in the province of New York. 1 They took possession of the court house, with an avowed…
Warren’s Oration
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 6. –This day 1 the old South Meeting-house in Boston was crowded with nobility and some gentlemen. The selectmen with Adams, Church, Hancock, Cooper, and others, assembled in the pulpit, which was covered with black, and we all…