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MG-A(G.766.021
11 Sep 1766:11,12,13,21 (1096)
The following very extraordinary pieces, publish'd in a
supplement to Messieur's Bradford's Pennsylvania Journal,
will show the readers what sort of a man John Hughes is, and
others of his stamp. . . [long letter concerning the
uprisings against the Stamp-act from Hughes to the
commissioners of the Stamp-Office in London, dated
Philadelphia, October 12, 1765, with the following
references:]
[:11] . . . that a mob would be collected by beating muffled
drums through all the streets, and ringing the State-House
and Church bells muffled. . .
[:13,21] Since writing the above, I am informed that
Benjamin Shoemaker, Esq; who is one of the people called
Quakers, and also an alderman of this city, met with the
Drummers as they were alarming the city, and took them to
task, requiring to known by what authority they were
endeavouring to raise a mob? They answered, if he would go
to the State-House, he might know. He then asked who
ordered them to beat about the streets? They said they had
their orders from the Coffee-House. (N.B. kept by the
beforementioned Mr. Bradford.) Mr. Shoemaker then forbid
them to proceed any further, and said he would go
immediately to the Mayor and have them committed; they
answered, they could get the Mayor's ordered when they
pleased. But Mr. Shoemaker could not find the Mayor, nor
any officer to assist him, and therefore was obliged to
desist, lest he should draw the mob upon himself and family,
and so have his house pulled down. . .
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