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NYGWPB.766.004
9 Jan 1766:23 (1201)
Wilmington, (in North-Carolina) Nov. 20. On Saturday the
19th of last month, about 7 of o'clock in the evening, near
500 people assembled together in this town, and exhibited
the effigy of a certain honourable gentleman . . .
On Thursday, the 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 to the churchyard, a drum in mourning
beating before them and the town bell, muffled, ringing a
doleful knell at [ ] time. . .
On Saturday the 16th of this inst, William Houston, Esq;
distributor of stamps for this province came to this town;
upon which three or four hundred people immediately gathered
together, with drums beating and colours flying, at [ ]
the house of said stamp officer . . .
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