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IC.779.029
21 Oct 1779:21,22 (12/583)
Our accounts from Providence, and other places not far
distant from Rhode-Island, support a belief, that Newport
will be soon evacuated. Advices by the post, last evening,
confidently affirm, that the heavy cannon and baggage of the
enemy, with a number of their troops, are already embarked
in the transports that came from New-York; that every thing
looks like an immediate and total departure of the whole
British force that had lately held the island; that the
organ and bells have been taken by the enemy from the
churches, and the place belonging to it, as well as much
more that was private property.
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