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Having been for several weeks past, confined on board his Majesty's Ships as the Bearer of some exceptionable Letters, I was yesterday admitted to an interview with the Admiral; by his direction I have told him a state of facts which I presume must justify my Conduct to every candid Mind. ー By the Admiral I am informed, that your interference is necessary to my Enlargementー
Suffer me to entreat...
Date: 23 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
If tears of blood were to follow my pen, they wou'd but faintly marke the distressing anxiety I have suffered for near three Months past ー to be betrayed into a situation which equally exposed me to the Insults of my Enemies and the Suspicions or Contempt of my Friends, by a Scoundrel whose base duplicity, I cou'd neither expose or counteract, excited feelings, which often proved too severe a...
Date: 28 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
From my last, you may form some judgment of the disagreeable state of Mind I have suffered from the Commencement of my late misfortunes ー anticipating your approbation, I have so far overcome the restraint I have long labour'd under, as to attempt again to write you ー my first interview with Ayscough, after his discovery of the Letters I think worth relating ー (if I had been subject to fits, I am...
Date: 25 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Lexington
Decr 10th 1775 } Being interrupted by Company, on the Evengs I had devoted to this Letter, I rose early the next morning intending to fill this sheet, at least, & send it by Mr [Paul] Revere ー I had wrote to the bottom of the preceding page, when a Gentleman called me aside & whispered ー that he had the day before been in a large Company, among whom were Collo [James] Otis, Doct...
Date: 10 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3