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CG-NL.766.001
24 Jan 1766:21 (115)
Wilmington, (in North-Carolina) Nov. 20. On Saturday the
16th of this inst. William Houston, Esq: distributor of
stamps for this province, came to this town; upon which
three or four hundred people immediately gathered together,
with drums beating and colours flying and repaired to the
house the said stamp officer put up at, and insisted upon
knowing whether he intended to execute his said office, or
not? He told them, he should be very sorry to execute any
office disagreeable to the people of this province. But
they not content with such a declaration, carried him into
the court house, where he signed a resignation satisfactory
to the whole.
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