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PC.769.014
9-16 Jan 1769:4423 (105)
Boston. . . Dec. 23. It may now be said that the G---r and
C--m--rs have the last night had a sort of an assembly at
Concert-hall; never were the gentlemen concerned more
liberal in their invitations, even those ladies who declined
subscribing, had their cards; the neighbouring towns were
reconnoitred for females, and the good-natured S--r of the
B--d of C--m--rs was so complaisant as to offer to go as far
as Salem to being two damsels from thence; their efforts
were finally so successful, as to procure from among
themselves and their connexions, about ten or twelve
unmarried ladies, whose quality and merits have been since
related with the spritely humour of a military gallant---
The ball was opened by Capt. W---n, --a gentleman who has
been taken notice of in this journal. There was indeed a
numerous and blazing appearance of men, but the ladies of
all ages and conditions so few, that the most precise
Puritan could not find it in his heart to charge said
assembly with being guilty of the crime of mixt dancing.
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