Friday, June 19, 2026

Diary of Christopher Marshall, May 21, 1774

This day part of [the] Standing Committee met to consider the resolve of the town of Boston, sent here by express, but as they were uncertain what the Provinces of Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina would do, they appointed a suitable answer to be wrote back to New York and Boston, and at [the] same time wrote to other Provinces to know their minds on this alarming occasion, which was sent by express, and (they) wait till its return. The same day arrived the ship Prosperity, Captain McCulloch, from Belfast in twenty-eight days, with four hundred and

fifty passengers.

SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, pp. 5-6

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