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WILLIAMSBURG, Feb, 9.By advice* from the army under Col. Howe, we learn, that they abandoned Norfolk laft Ttfcfday, after removing the poor inhabitant*, with what effects they could carry along with them, and dcmolifhing the in-trenchment* which lord Dunmore threw up a little before he fled on board the fleet now lying before thatClace. What few houfes remained after the late bom-ardment were likewife deftroycd, fafter being valued, to prevent our enemie* taking fhelter in them. Thus, in the courfe of five week*, has a town, which contained upward* of 6000 inhabitants, many of them in affluent circumflances, a place that carried on an ex ten five trade and commerce, consequently affording bread to many thoufands, been reduced to afhes, and become defolate, through the wicked and cruel machination* of lord North and the junto, aided by their faithful fervants, my lord Dunmore with his motley army, and the renowned capt. Bel lew, commodore of his Britannic ma-jefty's fleet in Virginia, and his generous and valiant crew. Truly may it be now faid,Never can true recencilement gronuWhere ‘waundt §f deadly hate have pierc'd fo deep•
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Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Thu, Feb 22, 1776
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