Index Entry | Fair freedom's glorious cause I've meanly quitted [fl] |
Location | Newport |
Citation | NYGWPB.765.094 29 Aug 1765:22 (1182) Newport, (in Rhode-Island,) August 19. Extract of a letter from Boston, August 15 . . . [effigy of the stamp tax collector hung form a tree with following verse attached:] "Fair Freedom's glorious cause I've meanly quitted, "-----------For the sake of Pelf, "But ah! the Devil has me outwitted, "And instead of stamping others, I've hang'd myself. [4 more lines] |
Generic Title | New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy |
Date | 1765.08.29 |
Publisher | Holt, John |
City, State | New York, NY |
Year | 1765 |
Bibliography | B0026892 |