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…
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Fast Day
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 21. –Yesterday, agreeably to the recommendation of the delegates in the hon. Continental Congress, was observed with the utmost solemnity, by fasting, abstinence, and devotion. In all the churches in New York were large congregations, and excellent discourses,…
Battle of Breed’s Hill
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 17. –Last night a detachment from the camp at Cambridge, marched to Charlestown, and there took possession of Breed’s Hill, about half a mile from the ferry. Their intrenching tools not coming up in season, it was twelve…
Tarring at Charleston
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 8. –This forenoon, Laughlin Martin and John Dealy were carried through the principal streets of Charleston, South Carolina, in complete suits of tar and feathers. The very indecent and daring behavior of the two culprits, in several instances,…
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…