From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. A trial about a disputed horse race that has been run on Rye Flats, came on to-day before Peter Guion, Esq., at Besley’s tavern, at New Rochelle. One of the parties demanded a jury, and the justice accordingly issued…
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Soldiers in Boston
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…
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…
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I…
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…