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SCGCJ.768.125
13 Dec 1768:21 (158)
Boston . . . October 14. The troops still keep possession
of Faneuil-Hall, the Court-house, Representatives chambers,
&c. Guards placed at the passage way into the town, near the
neck. Patrolling companies near the ferry ways, and parties
sent into the country to prevent desertions: In the
forenoon one Rogers, a New-England man, sentenced to receive
one thousand stripes, and a number of soldiers, were
scourged in the common by the black drummers, in a manner,
which however necessary, was shocking to humanity; some
gentlemen who had held commissions in the army, observing,
that only 40 of the 170 lashes received by Rogers, at this
time, was equal in punishment to 500, they had seen given in
other regiments.
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