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NYM(G.779.014
22 Mar 1779:31 (1431)
March 20. Last Wednesday, the anniversary of Saint Patrick,
the tutelar saint of Ireland, was celebrated by the natives
of that Kingdom with their accustomed hilarity. The
Volunteers of Ireland, preceded by their band of music,
marched into the city, and formed before the house of their
Colonel, Lord Rawdon, who put himself at their head, and,
after paying his compliments to his Excellency General
Knyphausen, and to General Jones, accompanied them to the
Bowery, where a dinner was provided, consisting of five
hundred covers. . . [26 more lines]
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