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CJ-NH.775.023
6 Sep 1775:41,42 (412)
[45 lines recounting incident between Asia and party sent
out to remove cannon]. . . Nothing material happened
further, till after the whole 21 pieces of cannon, being
all that were mounted on carriages, fit for service, were
removed. Before this, on the fitting of the cannon, the
drums having been about the city and beat to arms, many
people, under arms & others assembled at the battery,
apprehending that a party might be sent to land in the city
from the man of war. There had been a considerable interval
since the last firing, when it was began again from the
ship. Some imagine it was on the firing of a musket by some
body on the battery or the beating of a drum there. . . [35
more lines describing renewed firing and conclusion of
incident] [signed] A.B.
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