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It is galling to the surly old Admiral, who, it seems, growls like a cur dog, that our people should burn one of his cutters under his nose, and take All the STOCK off the Islands, and bum the houses, barns, &c. on Noddle's island, in which affair they lost a great many men. Mr. ---- whose integrity, you know, may be relied upon, was in Boston at the time the dead were landed, and says they...
Date: 6 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Thursday night [August 24] we expected a repetition of Wednesday night's scene; women, children and goods were removed. All quiet at night. Friday, more expectations and more removals, the Governor returned from the country, and went in person and took in writing a particular account of the damage done; our Congress offered him a guard, but he said he had such confidence in the affections of his...
Date: 28 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1