Citation - New Jersey Gazette-Trenton: 1778.12.31

NJG-T.778.033
31 Dec 1778:21,22 (1/56)
Extract of a letter from New-York, June 8. . . [letter
purportedly from loyalist in New York, includes verses:]
  Attend, Britannia's sons, attend to Heaven's decree,
  These thirteen injured states shall independent be;
  Like the fam'd phoenix, from their ashes they shall rise,
  And tyranny and tyrants equally despise:
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