Citation - Essex Gazette: 1769.08.01

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Index Entry Assembly, in Boston, man watching over fence, assaulted by centinel 
Location Boston 
Citation
EG.769.051
25 Jul-1 Aug 1769:12 (2/53)
Boston, June 11.  A young man, an apprentice to a house
carpenter in this town, happening to be looking over a fence
on a small hill, near the Assembly Room, in order to take a
view of the Company there dancing; a centinel who had been
placed at the door, came behind him and gave him a blow on
the head, by which he was struck to the ground, and suffered
a great loss of blood; the soldier's pretence for this
violence, being, that he had been spat upon, by one on the
hill.


Generic Title Essex Gazette 
Date 1769.08.01 
Publisher Hall, Samuel 
City, State Salem, MA 
Year 1769 
Bibliography B0016000
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