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SCGCJ.774.065
25 Oct 1774:21 (465)
Boston. . . We learn from Easton, that on the 15th ult, a
number of the inhabitants of that town assembled together,
and erected a tree of Liberty ninety-six feet high, as a
monument to be had in everlasting remembrance of a united
agreement to maintain liberty and property.
The following lines were engrav'd on the tree.
In happier times if such should ever be,
May this inform our last posterity.
That men by honest views were justly led
To keep those laws for which their fathers bled;
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