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NCGN(D.777.001
11 Jul 1777:21 (384)
Philadelphia, June 12. Extract of a letter from Providence,
dated June 2. . . "This day I saw Mr.--- who informs me of
his mother, Mrs. --- coming from Newport by a flag last
Saturday week; she says; a few days before she came away,
she was at the house of Mr. John Miller, who came in and
said 'the jig is over with us.' Mrs. Miller asked why. He
answered, that upwards of thirty letters were then in town,
received by the officers from England, all agreeing that a
French war was inevitable. Good new to hear the Tories
crying out, 'the jig is over."
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