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PC.769.003
26 Dec 1768-2 Jan 1769:4261 (103)
Boston. . . Dec. 10. While the friends of their country are
recommending and countenancing by their example, the
strictest oeconomy, C--m--r P--x--n and company are
endeavouring to establish a weekly and brilliant assembly at
Concert-Hall; where their board is again held in the day
time, and a centinel placed for their guard: One of their
livery boatmen has waited upon the gentlemen and ladies of
the town with the proposals and a subscription paper; which,
to use a courtly phrase, has been almost universally treated
with the contempt it deserves. . .
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