From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 14. –Yesterday, a number of women belonging to Fishkill, in Duchess county, New York, collected together in order to purchase some tea of Alderman Lefferts, of New York, as he had a large quantity of it there, which…
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Privateer “Yankee Hero”
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 12. –A correspondent gives the following account of the capture of the privateer Yankee Hero: –Captain James Tracy sailed from Newburyport, in New Hampshire, on the seventh of June, in the Yankee Hero, for Boston, with twenty-six men…
Battle on the Hudson River
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 20. –Last Friday two fire-ships, commanded by Captains Fosdyke and Thomas, gentlemen volunteers of rank in the army of the United States, proceeded up the North River with intent to give a suitable warming to those piratical gentry…
Loyalist Letter
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 17. –A gentleman who lately escaped from New York, and joined the army on Staten Island, says: Every means of defence has been concerted to secure the city and whole island of New York from an attack of…
If You Fall, It May Be Like Men
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. On the late alarm at Elizabethtown, when an immediate attack of the regulars was expected,1 and every man, capable of bearing arms, was summoned to defend it, there were three or four young men (brothers) going out from one…