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BEP(F.774.048
26 Sep 1774:32 (2035)
We learn from Easton [Mass], 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 untied
agreement to maintain liberty and property. The following
lines were engraved 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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