[Gutenberg 48819] • Copy of Letters Sent to Great-Britain by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and Several Other Persons

Excerpt from Copy of Letters Sent to Great Britain, by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and Several Other Persons, Born and Educated Among Us: Which Original Letters Have Been Returned to America, and Laid Before the Honorable House of Representatives of This Province

It is now pretended they need not to have withdrawn, that Mr.' Williams had flood his ground without any injury although the mob be-t fet his hoofe, Sec. There never was that fpirit railedagainlt the under officers as againli the commifiionet's, I mean four of them f hey had a public affront ofi'ered them by the town of Bofion who refufed to give the ufe of their hall for a public dinner unlels it was fiipulated that the commifiisners fhould not be 1nvlted. An affront oi the Same nature strbe morion of Mr. Hancock was offered by a company of cadets. Soon after a veffcl of Mr. Hancock' 5 being feiz ed the officers were mobb'd and the commifiion ers were informed they we re threatned. I own I was in pain for them. I do not beliete if the mob had feized them, there was any authoritm able and willing to have refcued them. After they had withdrawn the town1fignified tothe go vernor by a meltage that it was expec'ted or deli xed they lhould not return. It was then the ge 'neral voice that it Would not be (ale for them to return. After all this the (cos of liberty fay they defetted or abdicated.

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