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Sir: It may not be disagreeable to you to have a more particular account of the solemn scene that has been acted here for two of three days past, than it can be expected common fame will give you.
Last Tuesday morning [May 9], Lieutenant Colonel [Samuel] Thompson, of Brunswick, with about fifty armed men, with each a small bough of spruce in his hat, and having a spruce pole, with a green top on...
Date: 11 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Friday [May 12, 1775], 3 o'clock. ー They have just hauled another boat over to Back Cove, and left it with the former. The boat belongs to the ship. They have this day carried off Mr. [William] Tyng's Bishop, a piece of plate said to be worth five hundred Pounds, (old tenour,) and his laced hat; but they say they only take these things as pawns, to make the owners behave better, or to that...
Date: 12 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Saturday [May 13, 1775], A.M. ー [Samuel] Thompson is not gone, as we supposed last night. The ship has sent out a little vessel with a swivel to interrupt him. If he had gone last night he would have been destroyed. Your friend and servant.
Date: 13 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
[Monday, May 15, 1775] P.S. Being disappointed last Saturday of sending the above, I am now able to add something more. Captain [Henry] Mowat sent a letter to the Town on Saturday, informing them that he had heard that fort guns were going to be brought in and replaced, in order to destroy his ship; and demanding of the Town to return his boats, and drive out of Town the cowardly mob that was...
Date: 15 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1