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NCGW(S.765.001
20 Nov 1765:11 (58)
On Thursday, 31st of the same month, in the evening, a great
number of people again assembled, and produced an effigy of
Liberty, which they put into a coffin, and marched in solemn
procession with it to the church-yard, a drum in mourning
beating before them, and the town bell, muffled, ringing a
doleful knell at the same time:--But before they committed
the body to the ground, they thought it adviseable to feel
its pulse; and when finding some remains of life, they
returned back to a bonfire ready prepared, placed the effigy
before it in a large two-arm'd chair, and concluded the
evening with great rejoicings, on finding that Liberty had
still an existence in the colonies. Not the least injury
was offered to any person.
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