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,…
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Bristol Bombarded
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 8. –Yesterday afternoon appeared in sight of Bristol harbor 1 a very formidable fleet, consisting of sixteen sail, viz.: three men-of-war, one bomb ketch, and other armed vessels, all of which, excepting the Glasgow, which ran ashore at…
Ethan Allen Taken Prisoner
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. By accounts from Canada we learn, that on the twenty-fifth of September last, Colonel Ethan Allen, prompted by ambition, had imprudently, without orders, crossed over from Longueuil with thirty of his own men and fifty Canadians, in order to…
Bombardment of Stonington Harbor
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 31. –Yesterday morning a tender chased into Stonington harbor two small sloops, which had a number of people on board bound to Block Island. They had but just time to get on shore before the tender came in,…
Marriage of John Hancock
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. This evening was married, at the seat of Thaddeus Burr, Esq., at Fairfield, Connecticut, by the Reverend Mr. Elliot, the Hon. John Hancock, Esq, President of the Continental Congress, to Miss Dorothy Quincy, daughter of Edmund Quincy, Esq., of…