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BEP(F.769.037
26 Jun 1769:31 (1761)
Extract of a letter from Stockbridge, June 6, 1769. "At an
Indian dance the last week, (the confusion and disorder of
which, when they are supplied with strong drink, I can
hardly describe to you) two brothers, overheated with
liquor, fell into contention, and one so wounded and abused
the other, that he expired in great agonies in about 39
hours after it. The felon is taken and laid in irons,
waiting for his trial for such an unnatural piece of
wickedness. This instance, I think, strongly shews the great
necessity of some effectual measures being taken to prevent
the trade of the Indians with the English, and thereby the
Indians being supplied with Rum."
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