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NHG-P.769.026
30 Jun 1769:13 (664)
Extract of a Letter from Stockbridge, June 6.
At an Indian Dance the last week, (the confusion and
disorder of which, when they are supplied with strong drink,
I can hardly describe to you) two brothers, overheated with
liquor, fell into contention, and one so wounded and abused
the other, that he experienced in great agonies in about 30
hours after it. The felon is taken and laid in irons,
waiting for his trial for such an unnatural piece of
wickedness. This instance, I think, strongly shows the
great necessity of some effectual measures being taken to
prevent the trade of the Indians with the English, and
thereby the Indians being supplied with rum.
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