From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 1. –The following “Petition” came to my hand by accident; whether it is to be presented to the Assembly now sitting at Philadelphia, the next Congress or Committee, I cannot say. But it is certainly going forward, and…
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A Patriotic Minister
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 23. –Some time ago a Presbyterian minister, not far distant from North Haven, Connecticut, applied to a lieutenant of the militia to step into the market and give him the words of command, in order to his performing…
Steam-Engine in New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. On Friday last, at Messrs. Sharp and Curtenius’s furnace, in New York, a cylinder was cast for the steam-engine of the waterworks now in course of erection in that city. This is the first performance of the kind ever…
Disturbance at Boston
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 20. –A little after ten o’clock this evening, two young men passing down Milk street, near the entrance into Long Lane, they were accosted by an officer, not in the English, but as they supposed in another language,…
The Grey Maggot
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 25. –A despicable pamphlet lately published in Boston, now commonly called the “Grey Maggot,” has asserted, “That the only apology which could be made for the conduct of the Continental Congress in adopting the Suffolk resolves, was that…