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We have lately had a great alarm here about the Governor's removing a large quantity of powder from our magazine and conveying it on board a ship of war: Not less [than] 600 men well armed and mounted assembled at Fredg. on this occasion, with a view to proceed to Wmsburg. [to] recover the powder & revenge the insult: The propriety of such a step was warmly agitated and weighty arguments...
Date: 9 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I cannot let Capt [John] Hazlewood depart2 without sketching a few lines to you. ー You will find by the Papers, that We have received an account from Salem of the defeat of Col [Francis] Smith, and the precipitate Retreat of Lord [Hugh] Percy by the animated resistance of the brave Bostonians.3 This intelligence, so contrary to the expectations of Government, who have daily...
Date: 31 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Dear Friend . . . A rumour is on the wing that the provincials have stormed Boston & with the Loss of 7,000 have cutt off or taken [Thomas] Gage and all his men. It is but little credited. Indeed the fact is extremely improbable: but the times are so remarkable for strange events; that improbability is almost become an argument for their truth.
. . . Our Burgesses from the County are not...
Date: 19 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1