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When he arrived in Portsmouth every thing was in a bustle, the inhabitants (all that could) were leaving the town for safety & going to the country towns. Capt. Mowat who commanded the Squadron that burnt Falmouth was Dayly expected, "he had given notice to the authorities at Falmouth that he was directed to burn every seaport between Boston & Halifax"
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The man who was sent on shore by Capt. Mowatt, to set fire to the first parish meeting-house in Portland, was brought to their house a prisoner by Solomon Bragdon and Major Libbey, who were guarding the meeting-house. She thinks that if the Committee of Safety had followed the advice of Capt. Thompson, who had made a prisoner of Capt. Mowatt when he was on shore (on the neck then so-called) on a gunning excursion, the town would not have been destroyed.
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I well remember the time when Falmouth, now Portland was burnt by Mowatt, who did this in 1775 - I saw the smoke of the fire of the burning of the town from Small Point on Casco Bay. My aunt was burnt out in that fire her name was Sweetser
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I well remember the time that Mowat burnt Falmouth now Portland. I heard the guns & see the smoke. Philip Fowlers first wifes mother was my aunt and she lost all that she had at the time the town was burned by Mowat. Elizabeth Switser was Philip Fowlers first & only wife.
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sappers and miners
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he was wounded in the right shoulder at the storming of Yorktown
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sappers and miners
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we must I think have killed and wounded Many of them in the Boats - for we fired from the high Banks and Laurel bushes and the Boats within 70 or 80 yards distance - they had set fire to the above Houses and Stoers and fifteen or twenty Vessels Some of which was put out - But the Most part was Lost - they did not get above the Bridge to the Row Galleys which was their object - one of the Vessels Burned Belonged to my Father and Col Borden had two Stage Boats Burnt
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they had then to go over one mile before they ware out of Reach of our Shot - and we gave to them all we could and when they had got Back against Bordentown 2 1/2 miles - the cittisons and militia had got a field piece Ready and fired at them untill they were out of Reach of their shot 4 Row galley men ware killed and 10 or 12 wounded 3 Militia killed and severel wounded 12 British was found Dead on Land they took the wounded with them
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My father and I were plowing for Corn - we Heard the guns and saw the Smoke Rising from the fire of Col Borden's House and Stores on the Jersey side and Col Cairbrights house on the Pennsylvania Manner - on opposite Sides of the Stream we unyoked the Team and Ran - when we got there the Row Galley Men had Been fighting - and the British had Just commenced a Retreat - Some on Land and Some on the water - and we pursued them over a Mile to Point Breese - where them on Land got on Board their Boats
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Each Besides Small arms - the Last Spring that the British army Lay at Philadelphia - Sir Henry Clinton Sent Between one and two thousand men in flat, Bottom Boats to Destroy the Shipping and Boats - they were Piloted from their shipping and up the Creek By George Plato who Lived at the Draw Bridge on the Jersey side and John Elwood of Bristol Pennsylvania Both Torys
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The first time I took a gun to meet the Enemy was as follows Vis - My Father lived 2 1/2 miles from the Draw Bridge over Crosswicks Creek - which puts into the Delaware River ten Miles Below Trenton - There was laying in Crosswicks Creek Below the Bridge several Sail of Coasting Vessels Belonging Mostly to the cittisons - and above the Bridge - government had a Large number 40 or 50 Row galleys armed with Sixteen men each and an officer or Capt as he was called carrying one cannon
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was engaged in sinking Chevaux de frize in the Delaware at Billingsport
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