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Thursday the 7th [November] Captain Baron prevailed on me to let the Command Boat go off at day light this Morning with Letters for the General, intrusting the Packett with a Corp! of the Regiment, well acquainted with the road to Halifax about 7 OClock in the Morning the thick Fog & Baize clear'd away, I discovered several Boats full of Men coming along Shore from Westcock, & the...
Date: 7 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sunday the 10th [November] Two of the Inhabitants living just under the Garrison, came early this Morning to inform me of their being between six & seven hundred Men in Arms at their House, most all Night, waiting for a favorable opportunity to attack, that they approached in small partys, near the Fort, during the Night, but found our Centrys so alert, & firing on them, they retired. —...
Date: 10 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7