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NYGWPB.761.117
1 Oct 1761:22 (978)
London, September 21. We hear from Newport Rhode-Island,
that on Monday the 7th inst. the comedy of The Provok'd
Husband, or A Journey to London, was acted at the theatre by
the company of comedians in that town, for the benefit of
the poor; when the sum of one thousand and thirty pounds,
old tenor, (about fifty pounds Massachusetts lawful money)
was raised to that charitable purpose, and the money paid by
Mr. Douglas, in behalf of the company, into the hands of Mr.
George Gibbs, who has undertaken to lay it out in corn,
which he is to store in the winter, and then deal it out to
such of the poor as shall be judged worthy to receive it. .
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