* * News brought by post this day, of the arrival of the Snow, Sir
William Johnson, Captain Dean, at New York, the 19th, in thirty-one days from
London. It is said his papers are to [the] 5th [of] March, and [he] says that
"Sixteen men-of-war and ninety-five transports are certainly coming out to
America, to bring over eleven regiments and two troops of horse, he thinks, to
New York," and that "a nobleman is ordered out to New York, in order
to bring about a pacification," (I hope) and that "the city of London
have subscribed thirty thousand pounds sterling for the poor of Boston."
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of
Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the
American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 17
