...were being crippled by British blockade25. Not to be outdone, Horne Tooke raised and sent more funds, to be applied to the relief of the Widows, Orphans and aged Parents of our beloved American fellow subjects, who faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for...

...gentleman proposed, that a subscription should be immediately entered into, tor raising the sum of 100/. to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans,...inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Concord and Lexington, in the province of Massachusett's, on the 19th of last April ; which sum being...

...proposed that a subscription should be immediately entered into for raising the sum of one hundred pounds to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans...parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who faithfull to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were for that reason only, unhumanly...

...There was in London a " Constitutional Society " which, on June 7, 1775, sent Dr. Franklin £100 " to the relief of the widows, orphans and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects," who had fallen at the battle of Lexington. As the fort was built before the Declaration of Independence,...

...Home Tooke) for & seditious libel in advertising a subscription in relief ' of the widows, orpbans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellowsubjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, and preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the king's troops...

...in 1775 signed an advertisement issued by the Constitutional Society requesting a subscription for "the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American subjects, who faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that...