Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1765.08.29

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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.
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Generic Title New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy 
Date 1765.08.29 
Publisher Holt, John 
City, State New York, NY 
Year 1765 
Bibliography B0026892
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