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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 62: (search)
given for the removal of all inhabitants from the exposed parts of Norfolk and Princess Anne counties; an inconsiderate order which it was soon found necessary to mitigate or rescind. Letters, intercepted in April, indicated some concert of action on the part of Eden, the governor of Maryland, with Dunmore: Lee, though Maryland was not within his district, and in contempt of the regularly appointed committee of that colony, directed Samuel Purviance, of the committee of Baltimore, to seize Eden without ceremony or delay. The interference was resented as an insult on the authority which the people had constituted; the Maryland committee, even after the continental congress directed his arrest, still avoided a final rupture with British authority, and suffered their governor to remain at liberty on his parole. The spirit of temporizing showed itself still more May. clearly in Philadelphia. The moderate men, as they Chap. LXII.} 1776. May. were called, who desired a reconcilia