From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 20.—Yesterday, died, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, Francis Furgler, the hermit, who existed alone twenty-five years, in a thick wood about four miles from Burlington, in New Jersey, through all the inclemencies of the season, without…
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Queen’s Birthday celebrated in New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Yesterday, being the anniversary of the birth of her royal Majesty, the queen, the same was celebrated with great rejoicing in New York. A correspondent in Rivington’s Gazette, gives the following account of the evening’s entertainment: “As the loyalty…
The Connecticut Fifer Boy
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. When Colonel Webb, with some others, were taken in a late expedition to Long Island, a little fifer of the smallest size, belonging to the State of Connecticut, was made prisoner with them, and carried into Rhode Island. The…
Battle of the Kegs
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 6.—Philadelphia has been entertained with a most astonishing instance of the activity, bravery, and military skill of the royal navy of Great Britain. The affair is somewhat particular, and deserves notice. Some time last week, two boys observed…
State of Affairs in America
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 1.—At the opening of the last year, the American cause wore a sickly aspect. The Continental army, reduced to an inconsiderable body, retired as fast as the enemy advanced; and a vast tract of country, from the Hudson…