University of Virginia Library

2300. DUNMORE (Lord), Defeated.—

Lord Dunmore has commenced hostilities in
Virginia. That people bore with everything,
till he attempted to burn the town of Hampton.
They opposed and repelled him, with considerable
loss on his side, and none on ours. It has
raised our countrymen into a perfect phrenzy.—
To John Randolph. Washington ed. i, 203. Ford ed., i, 492.
(Pa., Nov. 1775)