From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 14—Yesterday, about four o’clock in the afternoon, Colonel Delancey, with about one hundred cavalry and two hundred foot, marched from Morrisania, in New York, and penetrated about thirty-three miles into the country, distant one mile and a half…
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Indians at Minisink
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Last Wednesday night [May 9, 1781] a party of Indians, consisting of twenty-five, with two Tory pilots, crossed the river Delaware opposite Minisink, the principal settlement of that country.1 At daybreak they proceeded to the house of Thomas Brink,…
Doctors Washington & Price
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Last week, the Senatus Academicus of Yale College, at New Haven, in Connecticut, conferred the Doctorate of Laws upon his Excellency General Washington, and also upon the Reverend Doctor Price, of London.1 1 New Haven Journal, May 2.
Hubbel’s Descent on Connecticut
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 20.—Day before yesterday, Captains Hubbel and Ives, with the assistance of other spirited loyalists, manned eight whale boats, and left Lloyd’s Neck, with an intention to make descents on the coasts of Connecticut. At sunsetting they discovered a…
Attack on Steward’s House
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 5.—On Saturday last, (March 31st,) a party from his most gracious Majesty’s ships the Monk, and Hope, off Annapolis, Maryland, proceeded up West River, with an intention of destroying, with their accustomed savage cruelty, the property of Mr.…