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GG(J.767.021
2 Sep 1767:22 (206)
Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, July 28. This town was last
night alarmed by a riot committed by several of the officers
of the 28th regiment (late from Montreal) the particulars of
which are as follows, viz.
The officers being under arms to march with the troops
quartered here, by 4 o'clock this morning, to join their
Regiment at Amboy, in order to embark for Europe, between 12
and 1 o'clock at night, they assembled in a body, and
marched thro' several parts of the town, with drums and
fifes. As the inhabitants had used them so very ungenteel
as to make them pay their debts, which they had generally
been obliged to do according to law, the officers seemed
determined upon revenge. . . [broke windows, aroused the
gaoler who] released the prisoners for his assistance, and
rung the bell; . . .
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