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We hear that a Regiment of Troops embarked last Sabbath [December 11] at Boston, said to be destined for this Place, for the Purpose of "arresting, detaining and securing Gun Powder."
Date: 13 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
We hear that the Number of Barrels of Gun-Powder taken Care of by the good People of New-Hampshire, in their late Expedition to Fort William & Mary, situated about 3 Miles below Portsmouth, amounted to 106; together with a considerable Number of Cannon, all the Shot, Small Arms, &c.
Date: 20 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Last Sabbath [February 26] the Peace of the Town was disturbed by the coming of a Regiment of the King's Troops, the Particulars relative to which are as follows. ー A Transport arrived at Marblehead, apparently manned as usual. Between two and three o'Clock (as soon as the People had gone to Meeting) the Decks were covered with Soldiers, who having loaded and fixed their Bayonets, landed with...
Date: 28 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Friday Night [March 3] Twenty seven Pieces of Cannon were removed out of this Town, in order to be out of the Way of Robbers.
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Wednesday, the 19th of April, the Troops of His Britannick Majesty commenced Hostilities upon the People of this Province, attended with Circumstances of Cruelty not less brutal than what our venerable Ancestors received from the vilest Savages of the Wilderness. The Particulars relative to this interesting Event, by which we are involved in all the Horrors of a civil War, we have...
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday morning some dispatches arrived at Lord Dartmouth's office from General [Thomas] Gage at Boston, brought by a ship arrived at Bristol from that province.1 They were forwarded by a messenger to his Majesty at Kew.
From the Essex Gazette, printed at Salem, in New England.
[Here is inserted the account given by the Essex Gazette of Tuesday, April 25, of the engagment at...
Date: 30 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1