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NYJ-P.777.006
28 Jul 1777:22 (1760)
Philadelphia, June 28. At a meeting of a lodge of Free
Masons, in order to celebrate the festival of St. John's
day, it accidently happened that exactly thirteen members
met, that at dinner they had thirteen dishes of meat on the
table; they drank thirteen loyal American toasts, sang
thirteen songs; their bill for liquor was thirteen bottles
of wine, and thirteen bowls of toddy. . .[3 lines] which
caused it to be remarked, that it was in some degree
emblematical of the union, friendship, harmony, and freedom
of the thirteen United States of America.
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