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BEP(F.764.002
5 Mar 1764:23,31 (1487)
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, Feb. 9. Last
Saturday the governor sent the constables to all the
freeholders of this city, requesting them to meet him at the
state-house:---We went, and were informed that his honor had
certain intelligence of a large number of Paxton people's
coming to town, which was the occasion of his calling us. .
. [1 full col.; 23, 21 lines up from bottom of col.:] On
Sunday the 5th, at eleven in the evening, letters came to
his honour, acquainting him, that a body of Paxtonians had
passed Reading, which is 5 miles off, on their way to this
city; and that another body was coming down Lancaster road.
His honor called the council, and they sat till one o'clock
in the morning, when they ordered a general alarm. Firing
one of the field pieces, ringing all the bells, beating of
drums, crying fire, &c. spread a general consternation among
the inhabitants, who, not knowing but it was fire, run to
and fro, enquiring the cause. . .
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