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VGW(HU.769.012
9 Feb 1769:23 (925)
Boston, Dec. 19. Journal of Occurrences. Last evening,
after church service, there was a considerable gathering of
children and servants near the townhouse, drawn by the
musick of the fife, &c. which is again heard on the Sabbath,
to the great concern of the sober and thoughtful
inhabitants. . . [1/2 column of other incidents]
Dec. 23. It may now be said that the Governour and
Commissioners have the last night had a sort of an Assembly
at Concert Hall. Never were the gentlemen concerned more
liberal in their invitations; even those ladies who declined
subscribing had their cards; the neighbouring towns were
reconnoitred for females, and the good natured S--r of the
Board of Commissioners was so complaisant as to offer to go
as far as Salem to bring two damsels from thence; their
efforts were finally so successful as to procure from among
themselves and their connections about ten or twelve
unmarried ladies, whose quality and merits have been since
related with the sprightly humour of a military gallant.
The ball was opened by Captain W--n, a gentleman who has
already been taken notice of in this journal. There was
indeed a numerous and blazing 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 mixed
dancing.
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