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CG-NH.765.029
8 Nov 1765:22 (489)
New-York, November 4.
The late extraordinary and 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 in the commons, from which they broke
open the stable of the L--t 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 the 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,
they carried the effigies, with the gallows intire, being
preceded by the coach, in a grand procession to the gate of
the fort, where it remained for some time, from whence it
was removed to the Bowling Green, under the muzzels of the
fort guns, where a bon-fire was immediately made, and the
drummer, devil, coach, &c. were consumed amidst the
acclamations of some thousand spectators, and we make no
doubt, but the L--t G--r, and his friends, had the
mortification of viewing the whole proceeding from the
ramparts of the fort; but the business of the night not
being yet concluded.. [followed by 30 more lines describing
further actions taken by the crowd]
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