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replied Gage; and at the same time, he urged Colden to the severe exertion of the civil power. The public papers, he continued, are crammed with treason, and the people excited to revolt. Gage to Colden, 31 Aug. 1765. But mean time, McEvers, the stamp officer of New-York resigned; for, said he, if I attempt to receive the stamps, my house will be pillaged. McEvers to Colden, August. chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. McEvers is terrified, said Colden to a friend; Colden to Sir W. Johnson, 31 August. but I shall not be intimidated; and the stamps shall be delivered in proper time; intending himself to appoint a stamp distributor. Yet dismay was spreading on every side among Sept. the crown officers. On the third of September, Coxe, the stamp officer for New Jersey, renounced his place. On the previous night, Sharpe to Halifax, 15 Sept. a party of four or five hundred, at Annapolis, pulled down a house, which Zachariah Hood, the stamp master for Maryland, was repairing, to b