From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 23. –Some time ago a Presbyterian minister, not far distant from North Haven, Connecticut, applied to a lieutenant of the militia to step into the market and give him the words of command, in order to his performing…
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The Ship James at Sandy Hook
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 16. –On Thursday morning, the 2d instant, the ship James, Captain Watson, arrived at New York from Glasgow, with a cargo of coals and dry goods, but as she did not arrive within the time prescribed by the…
Affair at Stamford
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 3. –A number of men from a distant town having heard of the seizure of the powder at Stamford, went in a body to that town; proceeded in an orderly manner to the house where the powder was…
Steam-Engine in New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. On Friday last, at Messrs. Sharp and Curtenius’s furnace, in New York, a cylinder was cast for the steam-engine of the waterworks now in course of erection in that city. This is the first performance of the kind ever…
Disturbance at Boston
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 20. –A little after ten o’clock this evening, two young men passing down Milk street, near the entrance into Long Lane, they were accosted by an officer, not in the English, but as they supposed in another language,…