Craven-Statewide County NcArchives News.....Governor Martin's Magazine 1775
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Early American Newspapers 1775
Date: 1775-11-01; Paper: Early American Newspapers

Newbern, NC 

This week will ever be remembered as the most remarkable epoch in the annals 
of this country, for the discovery of the grand repository of dark deposition 
of Governor Martin's infernal magazine, which in cool deliberation he intended 
to deal out in missive weapons of death to the good people of this province.

In the palace garden, and under a fine bed of cabbages was discovered and dug 
up a barrel containing about three bushels of gunpowder, in the palace cellar 
was also dug up two quarter casks of the same commodity, the casks quite new 
and marked R.B. In the palace garden was also dug up about 1000 weight of 
musket balls, lately cast, and about 500 weight of iron swivel balls, a large 
quantity of small shot, lead, iron worms for the cannon, with swabs, rammers, 
artillery boxes, matches, and the whole apparatus for the park artillery, 
which he would certainly have mounted at the Palace had not the appearance of 
the people of the town of Newbern, on his attempting to move the palace guns, 
driven him from the trenches before he had made them quite tenable.

'Tis said his Excellency, the night before he took his precipitate flight from 
the palace, buried these engines of death, as they might have an opportunity 
of using them. The palace cannon were spiked up after his Excellency left the 
palace, by a person who no doubt will be obliged to answer for his conduct.

As 'tis improbable the Governor could procure these deadly weapons without 
assistance; the committee of this town and county are using their utmost 
endeavors to discover the authors of so black a treachery.


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