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BG.766.030
26 May 1766:22 (582)
Another correspondent sends us the following relation of the
rejoicings: Monday last was the time appointed for the
public rejoicing on the Repeal of the Stamp-Act -- The ardor
of the people was so great, that immediately after the clock
strook one in the morning, the bell on the Reverend Doctor
Byles's Church (as being the nearest to Liberty-Tree) was
set a ringing; which was soon answered by the bells on
Christ-Church, at the other end of the town; and in a short
time all the other bells of the town strook in. Before two
o'clock musick was heard in the streets, the drums beat, and
guns fired. Assoon as it grew light enough to see, the
steeple of the meeting-house nest the Tree of Liberty was
hung with banners.--The tree decorated with flags and
streamers, and all round the town,. . . [almost all the rest
of the col]
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