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NHG-P.765.065
15 Nov 1765:13,21 (476)
New-York, November 4. The late extraordinary and
unprecedented preparations in Fort George, and the securing
of the Stamp'd Paper in that garrison, having greatly
alarmed and displeas'd the inhabitants of this city, a vast
number of them assembled last Friday evening in the commons,
from when they marched down the Fly (preceded by a number of
lights,) and having stop'd a few minutes at the Coffee
House, proceeded to the fort walls, where they broke open
the stable of the L---t G----r, took out his coach, and
after carrying the same thro' the principal streets of the
city, in triumph march [sic] to the Commons where a gallows
was erected; on one end of which was suspended the effigy of
the person whose property the coach was; in his right hand
he held a stamp'd Bill of Lading, and on his breast was
affix'd a paper with the following inscription, The Rebel
Drumer in the Year 1715. At his back was fixed a drum, the
badge of his profession; at the other end of the gallows
hung the figure of the devil, a proper companion for the
other, as 'tis suppos'd it was intirely at his instigation
he acted; . . . [45 more lines, describing the rest of the
protest]
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