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BG.765.045
11 Nov 1765:31 (554)
New-York, November 4. The late extraordinary an
unprecedented preparations in Fort-George, and the securing
of the Stamp'd paper in that garrison, having greatly
alarmed and displeas'd the inhabitants of this city, a vast
number of them assembled last Friday evening the Commons,
from whence they marched down the Fly,. . . [2 lines]
proceeded to the Fort Walls, where they broke open the
stable of the L--G---r, took out his coach, and after
carrying the same thro' the principal streets of the city,
in triumph march'd to the Commons, where a gallows was
erected; on one end of which was suspended the effigy of the
person whose property the coach was; in his right hand he
held a stamp'd bill of lading, and on his breast was affix'd
a paper with the following inscription, The Rebel Drummer in
the year 1715: At his back was fixed a drum, the badge of
his profession; at the other end of the gallows hung the
figure of the devil, a proper companion for the other, as
'tis suppos'd it was intirely at his instigation he acted:
After they had hung there a considerable time,. . . [5
lines] a bon-fire was immediately made, and the drummer,
devil, coach &c. were consumed amidst the acclamations of
some thousand spectators. . .
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