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Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ints, when ye Genl Sent toye Governor yt if he would not agree tothose Articles he had proposd, he wouldnot have him trouble himself to send again,for he should not alter one Article. Friday ye 13th. August 1762. thismorning ye Flag returnd from ye Citywith ye Articles Signd, the Particulars wedont expect to know until we see them inye English Prints, but flatter our selvesthey are not Scandalous, as surely wecould have made them surrender at Dis-cretion at 6 in ye evening a party of 350 menlight Armd were sent into ye Country totake Possession of a Town Calld St.Deaga about 20 miles SS. W. of HavanaI went in This Party we Arrivd at thisplace on Saturday eveng about Sun Set,were kindly receivd and Entertaind;there was in this Town at least 5000 peo-ple, and no less than twelve Assemblymen, these people did not belong to thistown, but came from ye Havana, & Vil-lages between that and this in time of yeSiege. Tuesday ye 17th. we returnd_ from yeCountry by another way. This is a very
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i \ m Ar, 3Iog of an Ammrau marine tn 1762 Pleasant County, and a good land, butnot well Waterd, the People very Indolent,and seem to live Chiefly on the Produce of Nature. ■ This day I wrote a letter home by Mr. Warner two of ye N. York Troops, a Regular Sergeant, and twoNegroes were Hangd for Plundering sinceye Capitulation. Wednesday ye 18th. I went into yePqnto to see the Effects of our Cannon-ading and indeed it was Surprizing, therewas not above two Cannon but what wererenderd useless, and many of them en-tirely ruind by our Shot, the wall of yeFort next our Batteries (although twentyfeet high) was so Battered that a man withease might walk up in several places, theSpaniards said they lost fifty men in thisFort the morning our Batteries wereopened. From ye 19th to ye 21st. RegularTroops were Chiefly employd in Getinginto Cantoments, & the Ships, into ye Har-bour, the Provincials grow somethingSickly. ■ Wednesday ye 25th. Movd ye Provin-cial Encampment to ye East Side of

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