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They lay in an ambuscade to receive him, and fired upon his party from a thicket; but being inferior in numbers, in discipline, and in arms, they soon fled, panic struck and in confusion, leaving their commander and six others as prisoners. On his return, he ordered a fort to be built at the Great Bridge on the Chap. LV.} 1775. Nov. side nearest Norfolk. Encouraged by this most trifling success, Dunmore raised the king's flag, and publishing a proclamation which he had signed on the seventh, he established martial law, required every person capable of bearing arms to resort to his standard, under penalty of forfeiture of life and property, and declared freedom to all indented servants, negroes, or others, appertaining to rebels, if they would join for the reducing the colony to a proper sense of its duty. The effect of this invitation to convicts and slaves to rise against their masters was not limited to their ability to serve in the army: I hope, said Dunmore, it will oblig
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dejected by the loss of his nephew in the fight, abandoned the fort and retreated to Norfolk. Nothing could exceed the consternation of its Scotch inhabitants: rich factors with their wives and children, leaving their large property behind, betook themselves on board ship, in midwinter, with scarcely the necessaries of life. Crowds of poor people and the runaway negroes were huddled together in the ships of war and other vessels, destitute of every comfort and even of pure air. On the eleventh, Robert Howe, of North Carolina arrived at the Great Bridge, and on the fourteenth he, as the higher officer, took possession of Norfolk. On the twenty first the Liverpool ship of war and the brig Maria were piloted into the harbor. They brought three thousand stand of arms, with Chap. LV.} 1775. Dec. which Dunmore had promised to embody negroes and Indians enough to reduce all Virginia to submission. Martin of North Carolina despatched a tender to claim his part of the arms, and a tho
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nts: rich factors with their wives and children, leaving their large property behind, betook themselves on board ship, in midwinter, with scarcely the necessaries of life. Crowds of poor people and the runaway negroes were huddled together in the ships of war and other vessels, destitute of every comfort and even of pure air. On the eleventh, Robert Howe, of North Carolina arrived at the Great Bridge, and on the fourteenth he, as the higher officer, took possession of Norfolk. On the twenty first the Liverpool ship of war and the brig Maria were piloted into the harbor. They brought three thousand stand of arms, with Chap. LV.} 1775. Dec. which Dunmore had promised to embody negroes and Indians enough to reduce all Virginia to submission. Martin of North Carolina despatched a tender to claim his part of the arms, and a thousand were made over to him. The governor sent a flag of truce on shore to inquire if he and the fleet might be supplied with fresh provisions; and was an
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age at the end of the isthmus between York and James Rivers. An armed sloop had been driven on its shore in a very violent gale; its people took out of her six swivels and other stores, made some of her men prisoners, and then set her on fire. Dunmore blockaded the port; they called to their assistance a company of shirt men, as the British called the Virginia regulars from the hunting shirt which was their uniform, and another company of minute men, besides a body of militia. On the twenty sixth Dunmore sent some of the tenders close into Hampton Roads to destroy the town. The guard marched out to repel them, and the moment they came within gunshot, George Nicholas, who commanded the Virginians, fired his musket at one of the tenders. It was the first gun fired in Virginia against the British: his example was followed by his party. Retarded by boats which had been sunk across the channel, the British on that day vainly attempted to land. In the following night the Culpepper r
August (search for this): chapter 15
Chapter 55: The royal governor of Virginia Invites the Serv-Ants and slaves to rise against their masters. November—December, 1775. The central colonies still sighed for reconciliation; Chap. LV.} 1775. Dec. the tories and the timid were waiting for commissioners; the credit of the continental paper money languished and declined; the general congress in December, while they answered the royal proclamation of August by threats of retaliation, and a scornful rejection of allegiance to parliament, professed allegiance to the king, and distinguished between their resistance to tyranny and rebellion; but all the while a steady current drifted the country towards independence. In New Jersey, the regular colonial assembly, which was still kept in existence, granted the usual annual support of the royal government. On the fifth of December they resolved themselves into a committee of the whole, to consider the draft of a separate address to the king; but as that mode of action
September (search for this): chapter 15
sels of war plundered the islands in Narragansett bay as before. Meantime Dunmore, driven from the land of Virginia, maintained the command of the water by means of a flotilla, composed of the Mercury of twenty four guns, the Kingfisher of sixteen, the Otter of fourteen, with other ships, and light vessels, and tenders, which he had engaged in the king's service. At Norfolk, a town of about six thousand inhabitants, a newspaper was published by John Holt. About noon on the last day of September, Dunmore, finding fault with its favoring sedition and rebellion, sent on shore a small party, who, meeting no resistance, seized and brought off two printers and all the materials of a printing office, so that he could publish Chap. LV.} 1775. Oct. from his ship a gazette on the side of the king. The outrage, as we shall see, produced retaliation. In October, Dunmore repeatedly landed detachments to seize arms wherever he could find them. Thus far Virginia had not resisted the Brit
October (search for this): chapter 15
mall party, who, meeting no resistance, seized and brought off two printers and all the materials of a printing office, so that he could publish Chap. LV.} 1775. Oct. from his ship a gazette on the side of the king. The outrage, as we shall see, produced retaliation. In October, Dunmore repeatedly landed detachments to seizeOctober, Dunmore repeatedly landed detachments to seize arms wherever he could find them. Thus far Virginia had not resisted the British by force; the war began in that colony with the defence of Hampton, a small village at the end of the isthmus between York and James Rivers. An armed sloop had been driven on its shore in a very violent gale; its people took out of her six swivels a was sent by the committee of safety from Williamsburg to take the direction. The next day the British, having cut their way through the sunken Chap. LV.} 1775. Oct. boats, renewed the attack; but the riflemen poured upon them a heavy fire, killing a few and wounding more. One of the tenders was taken with its armament and sev
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d: rest, then, on your former noble petition, and on that of United America. We have nothing to expect from the mercy or justice of Britain, argued Jay; vigor and unanimity, not petitions, are our only means of safety. Wythe of Virginia spoke for a few minutes to the Chap. LV.} 1775. Dec. same purpose, and the well-disposed assembly of New Jersey conformed to their joint advice. Simultaneously with the intrigues to allure New Jersey into a separate system, Tryon, who, since the thirtieth of October had had his quarters on board the armed ship Dutchess of Gordon, in New York harbor, recommended a similar policy to the inhabitants of New York; but William Smith, the historian, who busied himself with opening the plan privately to members of the provincial congress, met with the most signal rebuke. Roused by the insidious proposal, the New York convention, while it disclaimed the desire to become independent, attributed the existing discontent to the hostile attempts of the minist
November (search for this): chapter 15
a Invites the Serv-Ants and slaves to rise against their masters. November—December, 1775. The central colonies still sighed for reconcili the Virginians. While yet a prey to passion after this repulse, Nov. Dunmore was informed that a hundred and twenty or thirty North Carolered a fort to be built at the Great Bridge on the Chap. LV.} 1775. Nov. side nearest Norfolk. Encouraged by this most trifling success, Dof Indians among the savages of Ohio and the west- Chap. LV.} 1775. Nov. ern border; he authorized John Connolly to raise a regiment in the bunmore's Ethiopian regiment. Connolly was arrested in Maryland in November; and thus the movements at the west were prevented. At Dunmore'ment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the Chap. LV.} 1775. Nov. total destruction of Virginia. His strength will increase as a snow The innumerable affinities which had united the Chap. LV.} 1775. Nov. people with the British government, still retained great force; a va
November 14th (search for this): chapter 15
firm dry ground, which rose like islands above the wide spreading morasses, and could be approached only by causeways; so that it formed a very strong pass, protecting the approach to Norfolk by land from the county of Princess Anne and from a part of the county of Norfolk. He had twice received detachments from the fourteenth regiment, which had been stationed at St. Augustine: collecting all of them who were able to do duty, and attended by volunteers from Norfolk, Dunmore on the fourteenth of November hastened to the Great Bridge. Finding no Carolinians, he marched rapidly to disperse a body of militia who were assembled at Kemp's Landing, in Princess Anne. They lay in an ambuscade to receive him, and fired upon his party from a thicket; but being inferior in numbers, in discipline, and in arms, they soon fled, panic struck and in confusion, leaving their commander and six others as prisoners. On his return, he ordered a fort to be built at the Great Bridge on the Chap. LV.}
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