Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1765.09.12

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Index Entry Bell, in Annapolis, tolled solemn knell during Stamp Act protests 
Location Annapolis 
Citation
NYGWPB.765.105
12 Sep 1765:22 (1184)
Annapolis, (in Maryland) Aug. 29.  Monday morning last, a
considerable number of people, assertors of British-
American-privileges, met here, to shew their detestation of,
and abhorrence to, some late tremendous attacks on liberty,
and their dislike to a certain late-arriv'd------officer; a
native of this province! They curiously dress'd up the
figure of a man, which they placed in a one-horse cart,
malefactor-like, with some sheets of paper in his hands
before his face: In that manner they paraded thro' the
streets of the town, till noon, the bell at the same time
tolling a knell . . . [8 more lines]


Generic Title New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy 
Date 1765.09.12 
Publisher Holt, John 
City, State New York, NY 
Year 1765 
Bibliography B0026894
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