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BEP(F.769.014
13 Feb 1769:12 (1742)
Dec. 23. It may now be said that the G------r and C------r,
have the last night had a sort of an assembly at
Concert-Hall; never were the gentlemen concern'd more
liberal in their invitations, even those ladies who declin'd
subscribing had their cards, the neighbouring towns were
reconnoitred for females, and the good natured S----r of the
B----d was so complaisant as to offer to go to 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 humor of a military gallant. The ball was opened
by Capt. 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 mixt dancing.
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