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SCGCJ.766.007
21 Jan 1766:23 (6)
Extract of a letter from Georgia, dated Jan 6, 1766. Our
liberty here is at a very low ebb. When we received the
first accounts of the opposition made to the stamp-act to
the northward, the same spirit took place here and there
seems to be a general dislike to it, but of late some of our
merchants (finding their interest concerned) who first
exclaimed most against the act, drew off, and have even
endeavoured to suppress the spirit of liberty, by gaining
over the greatest part of the ship-masters to their side.
The number of the sons of liberty are too few here to make
any head against the other party, which is supported by the
rangers of this province. --Last Thursday a number of people
assembled together, after a muster of the militia, and
having provided themselves with drums and colours, marched
to the governor's gate, in order to know if he intended to
appoint a distributor of stamps, as a petition for that
purpose was then handed about . . .
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