From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 20. –This day, Lieutenant-Colonel Patterson, of the British army, came to New York, from Lord Howe’s fleet, and landed near the main battery. He passed through a file of the Life Guards of General Washington, and had a…
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Change in the Church Service
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 5. –This day, the Virginia Convention resolved, that the following sentences in the morning and evening church service shall be omitted: –“O Lord, save the king, and mercifully hear us when we call upon thee.” That the fifteenth,…
William Franklin
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Day before yesterday, Governor Franklin, of New Jersey, passed through Hartford, in Connecticut, on his way to Governor Trumbull, at Lebanon. Mr. Franklin is a noted Tory, and ministerial tool, and has been exceedingly busy in perplexing the cause…
Traitor Executed
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 28. –This forenoon, was executed in a field between the Colonels M’Dougall and Huntington’s camp, near the Bowry-lane, New York, in the presence of near twenty thousand spectators, a soldier belonging to his Excellency General Washington’s guards, for…
Thoughts on Independence
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 1.–Every moment that I reflect on our affairs, the more I am convinced of the necessity of a formal declaration of Independence. Reconciliation is thought of now by none but knaves, fools, and madmen; and as we cannot…