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PEP.778.003
8 Jan 1778:102 (4/441)
From Rebel Papers. Boston, Nov. 21. We have only time to
inform the public, that yesterday arrived here under an
escort of American light dragoons, the hon. John Hancock,
Esq; President of the American Congress, and first major
general of the militia of this state; by his coming into
town sooner than was expected, he avoided some public marks
of respect which would otherwise have been paid him; his
arrival was made known by ringing the bells, the discharge
of thirteen cannon of Col. Craft's park of artillery on the
common,
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