14 December 1775
Towne, Benjamin (d. 1793)
Newspaper
Title: The Pennsylvania evening post. [Vol. 1, no. 14 (December 14, 1775)]
Includes several letters from mid-October 1775 by Brook Watson in Montreal. As a British officer who owned land in Nova Scotia, Watson pretended to support the American cause in 1774. Intercepted letters to General Thomas Gage proved he was a spy. The letters in this issue were published at the request of Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress.
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