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NECH-B.776.001
2 May 1776:23 (8/402)
Boston, April the 29th, 1776. To the gentlemen,
commissioned officers in Boston stationed. Whereas the
subscriber professes a sensible regard for the common cause
of this continent; and being incapacitated, for want of
health, to serve as a private centinel, and not aspiring
after particular births of office in the service, wishes to
draw a private's pay, by being equipt, and standing ready,
at a minute's warning, to help, with heart and hand, in
repelling the force of such bloody troops as may, by any
sudden attack, strive to re-enter these bowers of paradise.
Having occupied a number of years in teaching of schools,
determines to hire a private apartment for the purpose of
teaching the rules of writing, arithmetic and musick, to
such soldiers as may be disposed to improve their leisure
hours that way. Having lately published a present to the
rising generation, the performance will be left with the
printers and booksellers in Boston, to be sold by the dozen
or groce. [signed] Amos Taylor.
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