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IL.783.056
2 Jun 1783:42 (5/265)
Springfield, May 27. On Tuesday last being the day on which
the court of General Sessions of the Peace, and the Court of
Common Pleas opened in this town, a banditti, collected from
the obscure corners of the county, composed of men of the
most infamous character . . . [13 lines: met for redressing
grievances] when the bell rang for the court, they, in
hostile parade, armed with white bludgeons, cut for that
purpose, marched before the door of the Court-house, and
when the Court, headed by the Sheriff came to the door, with
insolence opposed their entrance. . .
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