From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Last Saturday night, about eleven o’clock, a small party of rebels, from Jersey, landed at New Utrecht, on Long Island, and immediately proceeded to Flatbush, where several gentlemen of New York have country houses. The rebels, being well informed…
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Attempt to Burn Tiverton
May 31.—Last week, a party of British troops, from Rhode Island, made a descent upon the towns of Bristol and Warren, and after plundering and destroying all they could lay their hands on, they made a hasty retreat. This morning, about daybreak, another party from the same place, consisting of one hundred and fifty men,…
The Alliance Celebrated
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 6.—Agreeably to the special orders issued yesterday at head-quarters, the alliance has been splendidly celebrated. A writer gives the following minute account of the festivities, in a familiar letter to a friend: “How often have you told me…
Arrival of the Commissioners
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 5.—The last accounts from Philadelphia are, that the transports with the baggage have fallen down the river—that the British have begun to destroy some of their outworks— that they have broken off the trunnions of the heavy cannon…
Appeal to the Tories
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. A writer in New York offers the following appeal to the loyal inhabitants of America: My honest countrymen:—I presume you have, for the most part, read such articles of a treaty between France and the Congress, as the latter…