Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: being half a year’s rent due the 1st inst . for No. 522 Hanover Square, for the use express’d in said order. 30:0:0 John Smyth, Coll'r of rents. It may be remarked, that the above is one, probably, of many hundred receipts given by John Smyth for payment of rents while the Royal Army occupied New York. After the evacuation, the question arose, whether the persons who had occupied buildings under the authority of the British Commander- in-Chief could plead payments to Smyth in bar of actions commenced against them by the owners. This question, before it was finally disposed of, caused much excitement among the people, in the Courts, and in the Legislature. Mr. Mallard settled in New Brunswick in 1783, and died at St. John about the year 1803. Mallett, Peter. Of North Carolina. He left the State; but early in 1782, went in a flag of truce from Charleston to Wilmington, determined to remain and hazard the consequences. Man, Ensign. Of Petersham, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard University in 1764, and taught school in Lancaster two or three years. In 1767, probably, he removed to Petersham to pursue the same employment. At this time he was a warm Whig; and was continually involved in difficulties with persons of the Royal party, of whom several were educated men. The Rev. Aaron Whitney, the minister of the town, was among his opposers. There came a change. Before the appeal to arms,
Mr. Man had been wounded and taken captive by a subtler warrior, and a hero of more conquests than ever went clad in armor of metal. The minister could not convert him from his idol worship at the shrine of Liberty, nor all the armies of the Royal George subdue or blind his spirit; but the minister had a gentle daughter, the glance of whose eyes smote his shield through and through, …