From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. After Lord Dunmore, with his troops and navy, had been for several weeks seizing the persons and property of his Majesty’s peaceable subjects in Virginia, on Wednesday night last (25th) a party from an armed tender landed near Hampton,…
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British Account of the Battle of Breed’s Hill
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 26. –The Massachusetts occasional newspaper of today, gives the following account of the action at Boston on the seventeenth: –“This town was alarmed at break of day, by a firing from the Lively ship-of-war; and a report was…
Skirmish at Grape Island
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 26. –Last Sabbath1 about ten o’clock A. M., an express arrived at General Thomas’s quarters at Roxbury, Massachusetts, informing him that four sloops, two of them armed, had sailed from Boston to the south shore of the bay,…
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…
Warren’s Oration
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 6. –This day 1 the old South Meeting-house in Boston was crowded with nobility and some gentlemen. The selectmen with Adams, Church, Hancock, Cooper, and others, assembled in the pulpit, which was covered with black, and we all…