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CC-H.774.059
17 Oct 1774:22 (512)
Copy of a letter from the Rev'd Samuel Peters, to the Rev'd
Doct. Achmuty of New-York.
Rev'd Sir, Boston, Octo.1, 1774.
The riots and mobs that have attended me & my house, set on
by the governor of Connecticut, have compelled me to take up
my abode here: And the clergy of Connecticut must fall a
sacrifice, with the several churches, very soon, to the rage
of the puritan mobility, if the old serpent, that dragon is
not bound. . . [11 lines] See the proclamation I sent you by
my nephew, and their pious sabbath day the 4th of last
month, when the preachers and magistrates left the pulpits,
&c. for the gun and drum, and set off for Boston, cursing
Lord North, Gen Gage, the bishops and their cursed curates,
and the church of England. . . [13 lines] [signed] Your very
humble servant, Saml, Peters.
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