Citation - Essex Gazette: 1768.12.27

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Index Entry Drummer, in Boston, carried out whipping punishment on soldier 
Location Boston 
Citation
EG.768.052
20-27 Dec 1768:11 (1/22)
Boston . . . Oct. 6.  In the morning nine or ten soldiers of
Col. Carr's regiment, for sundry misdemeanors, were severely
whipt on the common: to behold Britons scourg'd by Negro
drummers, was a new and very disagreeable spectacle.


Generic Title Essex Gazette 
Date 1768.12.27 
Publisher Hall, Samuel 
City, State Salem, MA 
Year 1768 
Bibliography B0015969
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