From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. September 18. –We are much astonished at the behavior of some of those captains of men-of-war, who are stationed upon our coasts. They seem greedily to anticipate the horror of blood shedding; and although war is not yet proclaimed,…
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Account of the Devices on the Continental Bills of Credit
To the Printers of the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE. GENTLEMEN, No Explanation of the Devices on the Continental Bills of Credit having yet appeared, I send you the following Account of them, with my Conjectures of their Meaning. CLERICUS. An emblematical device, when rightly formed, is said to consist of two parts, a body and a mind,…
Attack on Gloucester
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 10. –Yesterday the Falcon sloop-of-war, under the command of Captain Lindzee, hove in sight of Gloucester, Cape Ann, 1 and seemed to be in quest of two schooners from the West Indies, bound to Salem, one of which…
Bombardment of Stonington Harbor
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 31. –Yesterday morning a tender chased into Stonington harbor two small sloops, which had a number of people on board bound to Block Island. They had but just time to get on shore before the tender came in,…
Female Infantry
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 17. –This morning, at East Hartford, Connecticut, sallied from the Lyon Tavern and its dependencies, a corps of female infantry, of twenty rank and file, with a flank guard of three chosen spirits of the male line, and…