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Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)

Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 405

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1766, as no event was ever observed before. Daybreak was ushered in with music,the beating of drums, and firing ofsmall-arms. The guns of the Castleproclaimed the joyful intelligence,which was taken up and echoed bythe town batteries. In the eveningan obelisk, which had been erectedon the Common,… … BEPEAL OBELISK. A TO UK KOUND THE COMMON. 359 ited. The Sons of Liberty liad erected a similar stage in frontof the Workhouse, from which they answered the disjDlay atthe Hancock House. Under this hospitable roof were enter-tained the genteel part of the Town, while the crowd outsidewere treated…

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