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VGW(HU.768.152
1 Dec 1768:12 (915)
Boston, . . . Oct 31. All the troops in town marched into
the Commons this morning drumming the dead beat; at eight
o'clock, Richard Arnes, a Private of the 14th Regiment,
dress'd in white, having just before had the Sacrament
administered to him by the Revd. Mr. Palms, Chaplain of the
Regiment, who also accompanied him, was pursuant to the
sentence of a General Court Martial, shot for desertion.
The Regiment then marched round the corpes as it lay on the
ground, when it was put into the coffin, which was carried
by its side into the Common, and buried in a grave near
where he was shot, and the Church service read over him.
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