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PC.768.143
26-31 Oct 1768:3432 (94)
Boston. Journal of the Times. (continued). . . Oct 14.
The troops still keep possession of Faneuil-Hall, the court-
house, representatives' chambers, &c. Guards placed at the
passage way into the town, near the neck. Patrolling
companies near the ferry ways, and parties sent into the
country to prevent desertions: In the forenoon one Rogers,
a New-England man, sentenced to receive one thousand
stripes, and a number of other soldiers, were scourged in
the common by the black drummers, in a manner, which,
however necessary, was shocking to humanity; some gentlemen
who had held commissions in the army, observing, that only
40 of the 170 lashes received by Rogers, at this time, was
equal in punishment to 500, they had seen given in other
regiments.
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