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EG.769.013
7-14 Feb 1769:1153 (1/29)
Journal of the Times. Boston, Dec. 23. It may now be said
that the G----r and C--m---rs have the last night had a sort
of an Assembly at Concert-Hall; Never were the gentlemen
concern'd more liberal in their invitations, even those
ladies who declin'd subscribing, had their cards; the
neighboring towns were reconnoitred for females, and the
good natur'd S----r of the B---d of C--m---rs was so
complaisant as to offer to go as far as Salem to bring two
damsels from thence; their efforts were finally so
successful, as to procure from among themselves and their
connections, about ten or twelve unmarried ladies, whose
quality and merits have been since related with the spritely
humour of a military gallant.--- The Ball was opened by a
Capt. W---n, a gentleman who has been already taken notice
of in this journal; there was indeed a numerous and blazing
appearance of men, but the ladies of all age and conditions
so few, that the most precise puritan could not find it in
his heart to charge said assembly with being guilty of the
crime of mixt dancing.--
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