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1774. Monday March 7. -

[1774-03-07]
This Morning brought us News from ...

1774. Wednesday March 9th. -

[1774-03-09]
Returned from Charlestown Court ...

1774. Tuesday March 8.

Docno: DJA02d107

Author: JA
Date: 1774-03-08
Last Night 28 Chests and an half of Tea were drowned.1
 
1. On orders, according to the Boston Gazette, 14 March, of “His Majesty OKNOOKORTUNKOGOG King of the Narranganset Tribe of Indians,” whose tribesmen “are now returned to Naragansett to make Report of their doings to his Majesty, who we hear is determined to honour them with Commissions for the Peace.”
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/