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EG.770.020
24-31 Jul 1770:22 (3/105)
New-York, July 13. Extract of a letter from Princeton, July
13.
This afternoon the students at Nassau-Hall, fired with a
just indignation on reading the infamous letter from the
merchants in New-York, to the Committee of Merchants in
Philadelphia, informing them of their resolutions, to send
home orders for goods, contrary to their Non-Importation
Agreement; at the tolling of the College Bell, went in
procession to a place fronting the College, and burnt the
letter at the hands of a hangman, hired for that purpose,
with hearty wishes, that the names of all promoters of such
a daring breach of faith, may be blasted in the eyes of
every lover of liberty, and their names handed down to
posterity, as betrayers of their country.
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