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NYJ-N.775.028
30 Mar 1775:23 (1682)
[in a letter from Boston. Describes how "an honest
countryman" bought a gun from a soldier, and was immediately
seized "for a breach of the act against trading with the
soldiers"]. . . the officers condemned the man, without a
hearing, to be tarred and feathered; which was accordingly
executed.--After stripping him naked and covering him with
tar and feathers, they mounted him upon a one horse truck,
and surrounding the truck with a guard of twenty soldiers
with fixed bayonets, accompanied with all the drums and
fifes of the regiment, (47th) and a number of officers,
Negroes, sailors, &c. exhibited him as a spectacle through
the principal streets of the town.--They fixed a label on
the man's back, on which was wrote, American Liberty, or a
Specimen of Democracy, and to add to the insult they played
Yankee Doodle. . . [9 more lines]
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