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BNL.765.072
14 Nov 1765:32 (0)
New York, November 4. The late extraordinary and
unprecedented preparations in Fort-George, and the securing
of the stamped paper in that garrison, having greatly
alarmed and displeas'd the inhabitants of this city, a vast
number of them assembled last Friday evening in the commons,
from whence they marched down the Fly . . . [broke into the
stable of the L[ ]t G[ ]r and took his coach, carried
it through the streets to the gallows.] In one end of which
was suspended the effigy of the person whose property the
coach was; in his right hand he held a stamp'd bill of
lading, and on his breast was affix'd a paper with the
following inscription, The Rebel Drummer in the Year 1715:
At his back was fixed a drum, the badge of his profession;
at the other end of the gallows hung the figure of the
devil, a proper companion for the other . . . [after a
while, the drummer, devil and coach was taken to Bowling
Green and burned in a bonfire.]
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