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CG-NY.775.003
12 Aug 1775:11,12 (4)
Extract of a letter from New Milford, dated August 8. The
rifle men on their way from the Southern colonies through
the country, administer the new fashion discipline of tar
and feathers to the obstinate and refractory Tories that
they meet on their road, which has had a very good effect
here; those whose crimes are of a more atrocious nature,
they punish, by sending them to Gen. Gage. They took a man
in this town, a most incorrigible Tory, who called them d---
-d rebels, &c. and made him walk before them to Litchfield,
which is 20 miles, and carry one of his own geese all the
way in his hand, when they arrived there, they tarred him,
and made him pluck his goose, and then bestowed the feathers
on him, drum'd him out of the company, and obliged him to
kneel down, and thank them for their lenity."
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