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NYGWPB.756.034
4 Oct 1756:31 (716)
Boston, September 17. A ball was made last Monday evening
at Concert Hall, by several officers and gentlemen who are
to accompany General [?] on his voyage to England.---We are
told there was a more brilliant appearance of ladies and
military gentlemen that at the ball mention'd in our last,
numbers of whom had met their friends and near relations at
Oswega when it fell into the hands of the French and
Indians---great quantities of serpents, squibs and other
powder-works were thrown by the crowd around the house, in
honour of the military dancers. After the ball the company
was regaled with a most elegant dinner and that mirth and
gaiety was maintain'd thro' the whole evening, which the
present happy situation of our affairs both in Europe and
America, may sufficiently countenance.
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