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NYJ-N.775.091
31 Aug 1775:323 (1704)
To the printer, Tho' you gave some of your country customers
in your last paper, a short account of the hostile attack
upon the city, by Capt. Vandeput of the Asia man of war, yet
as that account was hastily drawn up, and not so full as it
might have been, and as a more particular account would
still be very acceptable to your readers, I herewith send
you the best I have been able to collect. . .
[40 lines describing the removal of cannon from the battery,
and a boat's attacking the action with shots from the ship's
cannon; then] Nothing material happened further, till after
the whole 21 pieces of cannon, being all that were mounted
on carriages, fit for service, were removed. Before this,
on the firing of the cannon, the drums having been about the
city and beat to arms, many people, under arms and others,
assembled at the battery, apprehending that a party might be
sent to land in the city from the man of war. There had been
a considerable interval since the last firing, when it was
began again from the ship. Some imagine it was on the
firing of a musket by some body on the battery, or the
beating of a drum there;
. . . [38 more lines, signed] A.B.
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