From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 5. –This evening arrived at Philadelphia, Captain Osborne, from London, in whom came passenger the worthy Dr. Benjamin Franklin, agent for Massachusetts government, and the province of Pennsylvania. Welcome! once more, To these fair western plains–thy native shore;…
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New York Association
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 29. –The following association was set on foot in New York to-day, and signed by above one thousand of the principal inhabitants. It is to be transmitted through all the counties in the province, where, we make no…
Battle of Lexington
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The first stand made by the country in the late engagement was with only two hundred men at Concord Bridge, which the soldiers were endeavoring to pull up. The soldiers gave the first fire, and killed three or four.…
The General Committee of South Carolina
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 3. –This day the committee at New York received a letter from the general committee of South Carolina, in which they say: “The present struggle seems to us most glorious and critical. We seem to ourselves to stand…
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…