State Street : a brief account of a Boston way . 39. STATE STREET INSCRIPTION ON THE PRINTSHOWING THE LANDING OF THEBRITISH IN BOSTON IN 1768. HE lower right-hand corner of the illustra- tion on page 10 reads, To the Earl of Hillsborough, His Majest8, Scry of State forAmerica this view of the only well Pland Expe-dition formed for Supporting yc dignity of Britain& Chastizing ye insolence of America is hum7inscribed. The printing at the bottom of the cut givesthe names of the numbered ships and wharvesand battery shown in the cut:— #1 Beaver, #2 Senegal, #3 Martin, #4 Glas-gow, #5 Mermaid, #6 R
State Street : a brief account of a Boston way . 39. STATE STREET INSCRIPTION ON THE PRINTSHOWING THE LANDING OF THEBRITISH IN BOSTON IN 1768. HE lower right-hand corner of the illustra- tion on page 10 reads, To the Earl of Hillsborough, His Majest8, Scry of State forAmerica this view of the only well Pland Expe-dition formed for Supporting yc dignity of Britain& Chastizing ye insolence of America is hum7inscribed. The printing at the bottom of the cut givesthe names of the numbered ships and wharvesand battery shown in the cut:— #1 Beaver, #2 Senegal, #3 Martin, #4 Glas-gow, #5 Mermaid, #6 Romney, #7 Launceston,#8 Bonetta. On fryday Sept1 30th 1768, the Ships of War,armed Schooners, Transports &c, Came up theHarbour and Anchored round the Town; theirCannon loaded, a Spring on their Cables, as fora regular Siege. At noon on Saturday, Octoberthe l8t the fourteenth & twenty-ninth Regi-ments, a detachment from the 59th Reg* and aTrain of Artillery, with two pieces of Cannonlanded on the Long Wharf; there Formed and KALEVIMAG
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