Benedict Arnold and General Carleton at Lake Champlain... Funds for the widows of Lexington & Concord...
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December 17, 1776
THE LONDON EVENING POST, England, Dec. 17, 1776 Ftpg. has a brief mention: "...Lt. General Burgoyne arrived from North America. When he left Crown Point, Sir Guy Carleton was preparing to put his army into winter quarters in Canada."
The back page has a report which includes: "...for raising the sum of 100 pounds to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans & aged parents of our beloved American fellow subjects who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops at or near Lexington and Concord, in the province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April..." and a bit more.
Also: "...give an account of General Carleton's late Lake Engagement, agreed in paying every encomium to the bravery and prudence of General Arnold; he was during that engagement on board the Congress & fought her whilst she could swim & when he quitted her, blew her up in sight of the whole fleet...from Crown Point we are informed that when General Carleton's troops took possession of that place it was all in flames & that there are not but four houses standing there. The Provincials in Canada have made their grand stand at Ticonderoga where they at present consist of 20,000 men well entrenched...".
Four pages, never-trimmed margins, red tax stamp on page 3, very nice condition.
The back page has a report which includes: "...for raising the sum of 100 pounds to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans & aged parents of our beloved American fellow subjects who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops at or near Lexington and Concord, in the province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April..." and a bit more.
Also: "...give an account of General Carleton's late Lake Engagement, agreed in paying every encomium to the bravery and prudence of General Arnold; he was during that engagement on board the Congress & fought her whilst she could swim & when he quitted her, blew her up in sight of the whole fleet...from Crown Point we are informed that when General Carleton's troops took possession of that place it was all in flames & that there are not but four houses standing there. The Provincials in Canada have made their grand stand at Ticonderoga where they at present consist of 20,000 men well entrenched...".
Four pages, never-trimmed margins, red tax stamp on page 3, very nice condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
