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BNL.766.017
20 Mar 1766:12 (0)
[Report from Newbury-Port describing their opposition to the
Stamp act.] . . The next day his effigy was hung on the
Liberty-Tree near the lower Long-Wharff, the detestable
Clearance was fix'd on a pole with a chain, carried through
the town with drums beating, and flag flying, and other
music; at 4 o'clock the effigy was let down, and that, with
the Clearance was burnt under the Tree of Liberty, in the
midst of the acclamations of a vast number of spectators,
who then gave three cheers, and with the roaring of the
drums dispers'd, the whole was conducted with the utmost
decency and order.
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