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MS-B.771.085
22 Aug 1771:1001 (1/25)
Extract of a letter from a person in Carolina to his friend
in Pennsylvania, dated May 17.
I am sorry I have to inform you that our country and the
Governor have come to an open war. . . [1 3/4 columns
describing action between the Regulators and the Governor's
troops in Alamance, North Carolina. Half-way down first
column:]
About 300 stood and returned the fire for three quarters
of an hour, in which time, the Governor struck his colours
twice, hoisted a white flag, and beat a parley; but the
country, being quite ignorant of any signals or terms of
war, kept a constant firing, as long as their ammunition
laster, and then left the ground. . .
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