From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 8. –A writer in Boston1 addresses the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts as follows: — To the Massachusetts Congress. “Your assuming the government of Massachusetts Bay, makes it unnecessary for me to make any apology for addressing you in…
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Elizabethtown Riot – Judge Hampton
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 18. –A few days ago a riot occurred at Elizabethtown in Jersey. The scene opened between twelve and one o’clock, with seizing a poor Staten Islander, for no other crime than because some people of that ever loyal…
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,…