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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,…

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,…