From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 22. –The Provincial Congress of South Carolina broke up, after three weeks of unremitted application. They have requested, by public advertisement, that men of every denomination and persuasion will carry with them to all places of divine worship,…
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Gage’s Proclamation
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 12. –To-day General Gage has issued a proclamation, offering pardon in the king’s name to all those, excepting Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who will forthwith lay down their arms, and return to their usual occupations. Those who…
Noddle’s Island
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 30. –A Captain who was lately seized by Admiral Greaves and taken into Boston, has just come out; he says he was at the wharf at Noddle’s island when the battle began. The master of the Diana schooner…
Battle of Hog Island
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 28. –Yesterday a party of the American army at Cambridge, to the number of between two and three hundred men, had orders to drive off the live stock from Hog and Noddle’s islands. In attempting to carry out…
Colonel Washington Elected Commander-in-Chief
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 15. — The Continental Congress elected Colonel George Washington, a delegate from Virginia, general and commander-in-chief of all the American forces.1 –It was last year reported that Sir Jeffery Amherst had said, that with five thousand English regulars he…