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EJMP.775.020
15 Mar 1775:31,32 (2/65)
Boston, Monday, March 13. The Act of Taring and Feathering
not repealed.
Last Thursday morning a countryman was tarred and
feathered and carried through some of the streets in this
town by a party of soldiers, attended by some officers. . .
I Thomas Ditson, jun, of Billerica . . . [1 1/2 column
narrative of going to Boston and being tarred and feathered
by King's troops.] I was then order to walk out and got
into a chair fastened upon trucks, which I did; when a
number of the King's soldiers, as I imagined, about 40 or
50, armed with guns and fixed bayonets, surrounded the
trucks, and they marched with a number of officers before
them, one of whom I was told was the Col. of the 47th
regiment, who I have since heard was named Nesbit, together
with a number of drums and fifes, from the wharf up
Kingstreet and down Fore-street. . .
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