Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . SAMUEL ADAMS. Page 252 y-/V. 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 susp
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . SAMUEL ADAMS. Page 252 y-/V. 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, we foundit throng
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