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James Ayscough
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Sunday, June 19, 2022
“Admiral Graves foresaw a great likelihood…”
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The Road to Concord describes the Boston militia artillery company’s theft of their own cannon in September 1774, and how Gen. Thomas Gag...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
“Too deeply impressed with the melancholy Situation”
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A few days back I mentioned fireworks at New York ’s celebration of King George III ’s birthday in June 1774. I thought the report of that ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
“Treason! Rebellion! Massacre!”
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To be fair to Benjamin Hichborn , there’s no evidence that he’d read the letters he was delivering to Massachusetts for John Adams and B...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
“By such a mere accident as this”
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Yesterday we left Benjamin Hichborn on the Royal Navy ship Swan , commanded by Capt. James Ayscough , on the way to Rhode Island . Hich...
Monday, July 21, 2014
Benjamin Hichborn’s Delivery Service
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In late July 1775, twenty-nine-year-old lawyer Benjamin Hichborn set off from Philadelphia for his home province of Massachusetts, proudl...
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