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MG-A(G.773.034
27 May 1773:21 (1446)
On Saturday last the polls were closed in Frederick county,
and Messrs. Thomas Sprigg-Wootton, Charles Beatty, Jonathan
Hagar, and Henry Griffith were declared duly elected. On
the afternoon of that day, a numerous and very respectable
body of the freemen of the county assembled at the Coffee-
house, when the proclamation was read and unanimously
declared to be illegal, unconstitutional, and oppressive;
and sentenced to be carried to the gallows, and hanged
thereon, and afterwards to be buried, face downwards, that
by every ineffectual struggle it might descend still deeper
in obscurity.
The proclamation was then put into a coffin provided for
the purpose, and carried to the place of execution, attended
by a concourse of at least one thousand people, who moved in
slow and regular order, attended with drums, fifes, and
bagpipes, playing slow musick suitable to the occasion. The
sentence was executed to the universal satisfaction and joy
of the spectators under a general discharge of small arms.
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