Citation - South Carolina Gazette (Timothy): 1770.04.05

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Index Entry Bell, in Boston, rung to alert inhabitants of disturbance over importers 
Location Boston 
Citation
SCG-C.770.015
5 Apr 1770:11, 12 (1800)
Boston, February 26.  Last Thursday morning about ten
o'clock, some boys and children set up a large wooden head,
with a board faced with paper, on which was painted the
figures of the four importers, who had entered into, and
violated the merchants agreement, in the middle of the
street, before Theophilus Lillie's door, who was one of
them.
. . . [Report of disturbance]
The people, on hearing the report of the gun, seeing one
wounded, and others, as they thought killed, got into the
new brick meeting, and rang the bell, on which they soon had
company enough to beset the house, front and rear;
. . . [Report of disturbances continues]


Generic Title South Carolina Gazette (Timothy) 
Date 1770.04.05 
Publisher Timothy, Peter 
City, State Charleston, SC 
Year 1770 
Bibliography B0047361
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