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EJMP.775.023
15 Mar 1775:42 (2/65)
Newport, February 13. Last Wednesday Col. Thomas Gilbert of
Freetown, and about thirty more vile traitors to their
country, marched armed to the town of Berkley, with a
determined resolution as they thought, to cut down the
liberty pole in that town; but when they had got within a
little distance of it, some lads who saw them, discarded a
musket, and gave three beats upon an old drum head which
struck those redoubtable heroes with such terror that they
fled, some one way, some another, helter skelter, as though
the d---l had been there after them; . . .
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