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NYJ-N.768.185
24 Nov 1768:12 (1351)
Boston. Journal of Occurrences continued. Nov.11. What an
appearance does Boston now make! One of the first commerical
towns in America, has now several regiments of soldiers
quartered in the midst of it, and even the Merchants
Exchange is piquetted, and made the spot where the main
guard is placed and paraded, and their cannon mounted; so
that instead of our merchants and trading people transacting
their business, we see it filled with Red Coats, and have
our ears dinn'd with the music of the drum and fife.--How
would the merchants of London be startled if they should
behold their Exchange thus metemorphosed.
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