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BNL.766.018
20 Mar 1766:22 (0)
New York, March 10. . . Upon a supposition that the cannon
upon the Battery in this city were spiked by order of
Lieutenant Governor Colden, his effigy was exhibited last
Thursday sitting upon a piece of ordnance (properly mounted)
with a drill, constructed in such a hammer as to be
continually working; at his back hung a drum, as a badge of
his former profession: on his breast was fixed a paper, on
which were the following lines,
I'm deceiv'd by the Devil, and left in the lurch,
And am forc'd to do penance, tho' not in the Church.
. . . [11 lines, carried around in rain, finally burned.]
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