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CG-NL.764.006
2 Mar 1764:32 (16)
Newport. February 27. Extract of a letter from
Philadelphia, dated February 9.
. . . [33 lines on passage of a Riot Bill, prohibiting
unlawful meetings, under pain of death]
The above Association papers was immediately signed by above
600 people. On Sunday, the 5th, at 11 in the evening,
letters came to his Honor, acquainting him, that a body of
Paxtonians had passed Reading, which is 50 miles off, on
their way to the city; and that another body was coming down
Lancaster Road. His Honor called the Council, and they sat
'til 1 o'clock in the morning, when they order'd a general
alarm. Firing one of the field pieces, ringing all the
bells, beating drums and crying Fire!, &c.
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