Diary of Reverend Enos Hitchcock, June 13, 1777

Mr. Plumb set off for Boston at 4 ^oClock P. M. Showry—two persons bro^t. in supposed to be Spies, who give an account that the Enemy are coming up 10,000 strong.—

SOURCE: Amos Perry, The Town Records of Rhode Island, Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society, New Series, Vol. 7 (1899), p. 113