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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 34: (search)
about a month, lain at anchor in the harbor, and forcibly and insolently impressed New England men returning from. sea. On the morning of the tenth of June, one man who had been impressed, was rescued; and when Chap. XXXIV.} 1768. June. Nathaniel Waterman went on board the Romney to liberate another by offering a substitute, Conner, the Captain, indulged in a storm of anger. No man, said he, shall go out of this vessel. The town is a blackguard town, ruled by mobs; they have begun with me by rescuing a man whom I pressed this morning. By the Eternal God, I will make their hearts ache before I leave it. Affidavit of Nathaniel Waterman. Compare also Hutchinson to R. Jackson, 18 June, 1768. And he continued his impressments, in violation, as the lawyers and people of Boston believed, of an explicit statute. The Commissioners had a rankling hatred against John Hancock, partly because he with his company of the Boston Cadets had refused to act as escort, A. Oliver to Thomas