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…
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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…
Washington and Col. Patterson
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…
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…