. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. SAJIUEL ADAMS. Page 252. - >5 y. o ^ I OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 271 From the pen of a British officer, who was aprisoner on parole at Boston just then, we get,however, a more circumstantial account of theceremony: On the 17th we each received acard from the governor [chairman Board ofSelectmen ?] requesting the honor of his attend-ance at a specified hour on the morrow, in theTown Hall [Old State House]. As rumorswere already afloat touching the decided standthat had been taken at Philadelphia, we were not
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. SAJIUEL ADAMS. Page 252. - >5 y. o ^ I OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 271 From the pen of a British officer, who was aprisoner on parole at Boston just then, we get,however, a more circumstantial account of theceremony: On the 17th we each received acard from the governor [chairman Board ofSelectmen ?] requesting the honor of his attend-ance at a specified hour on the morrow, in theTown Hall [Old State House]. As rumorswere already afloat touching the decided standthat had been taken at Philadelphia, we were notwithout a suspicion as to the purport of thismeeting, and we hesitated for awhile as to thepropriety of giving the sanction of our counte-nance to a proceeding which we could not butregard as traitorous. Curiosity, however, gotthe better of scruples which, to say the truth,were not very well founded; and it was resolved,after a brief consultation, that the invitationought to be accepted. Accordingly, at the hourappointed, we set out, arrayed in the full dressof our corps. As we passed through the town,
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