Citation - Pennsylvania Chronicle: 1769.01.16

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Index Entry Fifers, in Boston, played on Sunday, children and servants attracted to hear 
Location Boston 
Citation
PC.769.013
9-16 Jan 1769:4422 (105)
Boston. . . Dec. 19.  Last evening after church service,
there was a considerable gathering of children and servants,
near the Town-house, drawn by the music of the fifes, &c.
which is again heard on the Sabbath, to the great concern of
the sober and thoughtful inhabitants;  some of those youths
having behaved so as to displease the officer, orders were
given the guard to clear the parade; they marched up with
bayonets presented . . .


Generic Title Pennsylvania Chronicle 
Date 1769.01.16 
Publisher Goddard, William 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1769 
Bibliography B0033454
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