Note 22 — Chapter IX · RICHARD DERBY AND HIS SON JOHN (1774-1792)
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(July 18, 1774.) “Captain John Derby who carried to England the tidings of Lexington battle, appears at headquarters in Cambridge and relates that the news of the commencement of the American war threw the people, especially in London, into great consternation, and occasioned a considerable fall of stocks; that many there sympathized with the Colonies.” (Felt’s Annals of Salem.)