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By order of the Committee for this Borough, I am directed to inform the Convention of the arrival of troops this day in this harbor in the sloop lately belonging to Mr. Bowdain. They are said to be from St Augustine, and are about sixty in number, under the command of one Captain and two Lieutenants: the Ensign, it is said, is coming by land. From good authority we learn, that another vessel with...
Date: 21 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas, it appears from undoubted testimony, that a certain John Schaw, of this Borough, did, in the presence of Lord Dunmore, officiously point out to the Soldiery at Gosport, one Alexander Main, Fifer in one of the Volunteer Companies of this place, as a person who ought to be apprehended for his impudence (as the said Schaw expressed himself) in wearing a hunting shirt in their presence, in...
Date: 8 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1