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Danbury Times
Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut
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Armed party of 50-100 men landed near Coburgh, Upper Canada, possibly reformers seeking revenge, attacked and repelled; six prisoners taken including James Hart and others plotting to murder Boultons, R. Henry, and rob the bank. No lives lost; heightened frontier security.
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ANOTHER OUTRAGE AT COBURGH. We some time since noticed an outrage committed at Coburgh, by certain inhabitants of that place, against an assemblage of Reformers We now learn from Capt. Gaskin of the steamboat Hamilton, that on Sunday last, a party of some 50 or 100 men, heavily armed were landed from a schooner, a few miles below Coburgh, and had marched up to near the village, when they were met by a party who had heard of their approach, attacked and driven back--six of their number having been taken prisoners. These persons, Capt. G. informs us, were on their trial when he passed yesterday. 'The party is said to have come from this side, but we rather expect it will turn out that they were a part of those who were so brutally treated by the royalists at Coburgh, upon the occasion above alluded to. We have not heard that any lives were lost.
Since the above was written we have been favored with the following extract of a letter from a gentleman in Coburgh, to his friend in this city, dated,
"Coburgh, 29th July. We have got James Hart, Luke and Luke's brother-in-law and father-in-law, also three strangers snug in jail. They had laid a plot to murder the Boultons and R. Henry, and to rob the Bank, but were brought out by a man by the name of Moon who was to have been their leader. A man by the name of Lett, and one other made their escape.
"If they are not hanged, they will be lynched. If they had committed the murders intended, I would not have given three cents for the hides of all the Americans in Coburgh."
The Hart mentioned above, formerly edited a reform paper at Coburgh, and is now editor of the Lewistown Telegraph. Lett is accused of having killed Capt. Usher at Chippewa.
Capt. Gaskin further informs us that there were four or five parties of them--from ten to twenty in each party-that none of the parties, save that mentioned in the above extract, were taken-that it was supposed they were secreted back of Coburgh-that immediately after the party was landed the schooner made off--and that double sentries are stationed along the whole frontier to prevent the escape of the marauders. Great excitement, of course, prevailed.
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Coburgh
Event Date
Sunday Last, 29th July
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six prisoners taken and on trial, including james hart, luke, his brother-in-law, father-in-law, and three strangers; plot to murder boultons and r. henry and rob the bank foiled; no lives lost; two escaped including lett; other parties at large; double sentries posted.
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A party of 50 or 100 heavily armed men landed from a schooner a few miles below Coburgh and marched toward the village but were met, attacked, and driven back by locals who had heard of their approach. Six were captured. They were part of reformers previously mistreated by royalists. Letter details plot led by Moon (who betrayed them) to murder Boultons and R. Henry and rob the Bank. Four or five such parties landed; schooner fled; marauders secreted nearby; great excitement prevailed.