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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
ers and privates were made prisoners. The war was marked by no more brilliant achievement. The diminishing numbers of the troops with Washington not permitting him to hold Stony Point, the cannon and stores were removed and the works razed. Soon afterwards the post was reoccupied, but only for a short time, by a larger British garrison. The enterprising spirit of Major Henry Lee, of Virginia, had already been applauded in general orders; and his daring proposal to attempt the fort at Paulus' Hook, now Jersey city, obtained the approval of Washington. The place was defended by a ditch, which made of it an island, and by lines of abattis, but was carelessly guarded. The party with Lee was undiscovered, until, in the morning of the nineteenth of August before day, they plunged Chap. X.} 1779. Aug. 19. into the canal, then deep from the rising tide. Finding an entrance into the main work, and passing through a fire of musketry from block-houses, they gained the fort before the
The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], H (search)
taking carrying away, and selling as his own, a check, the property of Francis Courier, Bolte having got possession of it at the Central depot, in this city, by fraudulently obtaining Mrs. Courier's check for the same. He was remanded to prison and the case will come up hereafter in the Hustings Court. Benjamin, a suite to William W. Jones, charged with being a suspicious character, and with striking one of the watchmen while in the discharge of his duty was ordered thirty lashes. Paulus, a slave to Dr. Davies, charged with being on the streets at night without a pass, and trespassing upon William Tompkins, was discharged. Wesley Adams, a free negro, charged with unlawful huckstering in that he did a few days ago first purchase, and then offer for sale at the Old Market afterwards, a lot of apples, was discharged, it appearing that the apples in question were brought to the city from some place more than fifteen miles distant. Robert Shelton, a free negro, was brou
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