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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 27: (search)
epresenting them in numerous letters as necessary for the enforcement of the Navigation Acts, and even for the existence of Government. When the soldiers stationed in New-York had, in the night Holt's Gazette, 1232; 14 Aug. 1766, and 1233, 21 Aug. 1766. Dunlap's History of New-York, i. 433; Isaac Q. Leake's Life of John Lamb, 36. of the tenth of August, cut down the flagstaff of the citizens, the General reported the ensuing quarrel as a proof of anarchy and confusion, and the requisitenessbut referred to a future session. At New-York the soldiery continued to irritate the people by insolent language, and by once more cutting down their flagstaff; Dunlap's New-York, i. 433; Leake's Lamb, 32, 33; Holt's Gazette, 14 Aug. and 21 Aug. 1766, and 25 Sept. 1766. so that the Billeting Act could find no favor. Shelburne Shelburne to Sir Henry Moore, 9 Aug. 1766. sought to persuade their Assembly to obedience, holding forth hope of a change of the law on a well-grounded representa