GUSTAVUS SHEWKIRK

John Lamb, a Patriot Rebel leader of an artillery unit, we trying to move cannon from the Battery in lower Manhattan to the North so as not to fall into the hands of the British and could be used by General Washington. The officers of the Asia, lying off Wall Street, saw this and fired a 32 gun broadside of huge shells to stop them. However, they could not. Incredibly no one was killed but this and other military operations caused an evacuation of over 40 percent of the New York City population by the end of 1775.

John Lamb, a Patriot Rebel leader of an artillery unit, we trying to move cannon from the Battery in lower Manhattan to the North so as not to fall into the hands of the British and could be used by General Washington. The officers of the Asia, lying off Wall Street, saw this and fired a 32 gun broadside of huge shells to stop them. However, they could not. Incredibly no one was killed but this and other military operations caused an evacuation of over 40 percent of the New York City population by the end of 1775.