From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 23. –The Jersey boys are scouring Long Island. They have taken Justice French and some more ringleaders, and a great many arms. No opposition is made to them. The people curse their leaders, say they deceived them, promised…
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Knowlton’s Visit to Charlestown
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 8. –This evening, Major Knowlton was despatched with a hundred men, to make an incursion into Charlestown. He crossed the mill dam, which lies between Cobble Hill and Bunker’s Hill, about nine o’clock, and immediately proceeded down the…
Burning of Norfolk
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 2. –Yesterday, at about quarter after three o’clock, the British fleet lying off Norfolk, Virginia, commenced a cannonade against that town, from upwards of one hundred pieces of cannon, and continued till nearly ten o’clock at night, without…
Battle of the Great Bridge
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. December 9. –This morning, after reveille beating, two or three great guns and some muskets were discharged from the enemy’s fort near Great Bridge, 1 which, as it was not an unusual thing, was little regarded by Colonel Woodford.…
Bradshaw’s Epitaph
The following inscription was made out three years ago on the cannon near which the ashes of President Bradshaw were lodged, on the top of a high hill near Martha Bray in Jamaica, to avoid the rage against the Regicides exhibited at the Restoration: STRANGER, Ere thou pass, contemplate this CANNON, Nor regardless be told…