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VTJ.783.003
21 Aug 1783:11,12 (1/3)
From the Freeman's Journal (Philadelphia), Mr. Bailey, The
late mutiny of the Continental troops in this city, has been
attended with consequences so interesting to the United
States, and affecting to the honor of this, that I presume
the following account will not be disagreeable to your
readers, who may be assured of its authenticity in all the
material parts, and with out known and intended inaccuracy
in any. [Description of start of the mutiny, 7 lines,
followed by] Accordingly on Thursday the 17th ult. about 80
soldiers with bayonets fixed, drums beating, and green
boughs in their hats, marched down market-street, and
proceeded to the barracks, where there were quartered 150
old soldiers lately arrived from Carolina, the corps of
artillery, and others of different corps to the amount of
400 in the whole. No measures were taken except conferences
between the President and Council and Congress, till the
Saturday following; when, to the astonishment of the city,
and the public dishonor, these troops with fixed bayonets
and drums beating, marched to the State House, the seat of
Congress and the Supreme Executive Council. [32 more lines
in column 1, plus 2 more columns follow, describing the
events of the mutiny, and the public and governmental
reaction to it.] [Signed] An observer.
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