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SCG-C.769.010
9 Feb 1769:22 (1742)
Boston, December 23. It may now be said that the G----r and
C--m---rs have the last night had a sort of an Assembly at
Concert-Hall; Never were the gentlemen concern'd more
liberal in their invitations, even those ladies who declin'd
subscribing, had their cards; the neighbouring towns were
reconnoitred for females, and the good natur'd S----r of the
B---d of C--m---rs was so complaisant as to offer to go as
far as Salem to bring down two damsels from thence; their
efforts were finally so successful, as to procure from among
themselves and their connexions, about ten or twelve
unmarried ladies, whose quality and merits have been since
related with the spritely humour of a military gallant.---
The Ball was opened by a Capt. W---n, a gentleman who has
been already taken notice of in this journal; there was
indeed a numerous and brilliant appearance of men, but the
ladies of all ages and conditions so few, that the most
precise Puritan could not find it in his heart to charge
said assembly with being guilty of the crime of mixt
dancing.
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