From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. A British writer gives the following account of the burning of Fairfield:—”About five o’clock in the afternoon [July 8] the British troops landed about a mile and a half west of the fort at Fairfield. One division, consisting of…
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Sons of Liberty in New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 10.—Still the rebels cherish one another with the assurances of eating their next Christmas dinner in New York, (peradventure in the provost.) Indeed, Mr. Washington has declared he will very soon visit that capital with his army, as…
Collier’s and Tryon’s Address
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The following is the address to the inhabitants of Connecticut by Commodore Sir George Collier and Major General William Tryon:—”The ungenerous and wanton insurrection against the sovereignty of Great Britain, into which this colony has been deluded by the…
Abraham Walton
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 29.—Last night a party of rebels, supposed from Horse Neck, headed by one Ben Kirby, whose father lives on Long Island, and is known to be an atrocious rebel, about twelve o’clock attacked the house of Abraham Walton,…
Tarleton’s Attack on Bedford, N. Y.
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 2.—Last night, Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton marched out with a detachment of cavalry, and early this morning attacked a party of the rebel Nags, commanded by a Colonel Sheldon, in the neighborhood of Bedford. The Americans’ situation was in a…