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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk (search)
the women and children to leave, and on the 1st January, 1776, commenced a heavy cannonade upon the town, which being returned as vigorously as possible, and the town being set on fire and burned by the Virginians, Dunmore and his fleet, finding that they could not get quarters and provisions here, were compelled to go elsewhere.--Lincoln, Scott, &c., would no doubt regard this place and the Navy-Yard as a most invaluable acquisition, a prize scarcely to be estimated in dollars and dimes. Hampton having been burned, they would be delighted to quarter some of their Hessian troops in Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the neighborhood, who would be glad of a chance to gratify their animosity and revenge by destroying property in town and country, and to commit all kinds of rascally depredations upon the people. Fortunately, however, they will not be allowed to come; and anxious as they are to drive the people from their homes to make room for themselves, that dare not attempt an enterprise so