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MG-A(G.775.001
12 Jan 1775:13 (1531)
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, dated
Dec. 16. We have been in confusion here for two days, on
account of an express from Boston, informing that two
regiments were coming to take possession of our fort; --by
beat of drum 100 men immediately assembled and went to the
castle in two gundalows, who on their way were joined by 150
more, and demanded the surrender of the fort, which Capt.
Cochran refused; and fired three guns, but no lives were
lost; upon which they immediately scaled the walls, disarmed
the captain and his men, took possession of 97 barrels of
powder, --put it on board the gundalows, and went off with
it to some distance in the country. . .
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