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NHG-P.765.063
8 Nov 1765:22 (475)
Portsmouth, Nov 7. Last Thursday, some hundreds of persons
from the country march'd towards this town, under an
apprehension that the Stampt Papers would be distributed the
next day, and came within two miles of the State-House, when
a number of gentlemen from hence, met them at the Globe
Tavern on the Plains, and assur'd them there was no prospect
of any such distribution; upon which they return'd to their
respective homes after being full satisfied, in peace and
quietness.
The next day, being the first of November, was usher'd in
by the tolling of all the bells in town,--The colours on
board the shipping in the harbour, were hoisted half mast
high; and about three o'clock in the afternoon a coffin
appear'd on the Parade, which was ornamented with the
inscription, Liberty Aged 145, Stampt, computing from the
aera of our forefathers landing at Plymouth, from England;
the same was carried to a grave prepar'd for its reception;
preceded by a person who in his right hand held a copy of
the Stamp-Act, reprinted in Boston.--The procession began
from the State-House, attended by a great number of people,
with two unbrac'd drums; after marching through the
principal streets, it passed the Parade, on which minute
guns were fired. . . [4 lines, 6 lines, describing the
burial of freedom, which then seemed to revive] after which
the inscription was alter'd, and appear'd to be LIBERTY
REVIVED, and carried off in triumph, and the copy of the
Stamp-Act thrown into the grave, and the clods of the balley
laid upon it; at which the bells alter'd their melancholly,
to a more joyful sound. . . [10 more lines]
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