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CJ-B.780.011
4 May 1780:31 (218)
Boston, May 4. Last Friday arrived in this port in the
Frigate Hermoine, His Excellency the Right Honorable the
Marquis de la Fayette. . . [13 lines] He politely return'd
his civilities, and begged to be landed in a private manner;
notwithstanding a large number of respectable gentlemen of
the town, with a number of officers of the army, attended
with a band of musick, assembled on the grand pier
impatiently expecting him, but to their disappointment he
landed on General Hancock's wharfe; the gentlemen of the
sword determined to pay their devoirs to their commander and
friend, repaired thither with the band, and escorted him to
genteel lodgings prepared for him in State-Street, amidst
the salutations of cannon, the ringing of bells, the flying
of colours, and the acclamations of the populace. . . [1/2
column, fireworks, toasts] The manifestations of joy were
wound up by ringing the sett of bells at the North Church,
where for an hour they peal'd with echoes of his merits. . .
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