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EG.775.007
7-14 Mar 1775:31,32 (7/346)
Boston, Monday, March 13. [Report of a countryman, Thomas
Ditson, who was tarred and feathered by the British troops
for trying to buy a gun from one of the soldiers.]
[1 column on the act leading to the tarring and on the
soldiers' actions including a mock trail and fine imposed.]
I was then ordered to walk out and got into a chair fastened
upon trucks, which I did; when a number of the King's
soldier's, as I imagined, about 40 or 50, armed with guns
and fixed bayonets, surrounded the trucks, and they marched
with a number of officers before them,. . . together with a
number of drums and fifes, from the wharf up Kingstreet and
down Forestreet, and then through the Main-Street, passing
the Governor's House, until they came to the Liberty Tree;
. . . [7 lines follow] [signed] Thomas Ditson, jun.
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