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The Freeman's Journal, Or, New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Report from Boston on January 30, 1777, of several respectable persons in Halifax arrested and confined by Commander Arbuthnot for expressing support for American independence and criticizing the British king as a tyrant. Calls for retaliatory action against internal enemies in Boston.
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We hear from Halifax, that several Persons of character in that place, have been apprehended and committed to close confinement, by the infamous Arbuthnot, Commander there, for speaking respectful of the independent states of America, and disrespectful of (as he terms it) their loyal King, but rather a Tyrant. Would it not be proper, that our internal Enemies, who are suffered to walk our Streets at Pleasure, were taken better Care of, as a Retaliation? --Nothing else will do.
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Halifax
Event Date
January 30 1777
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several persons of character apprehended and committed to close confinement
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Several persons of character in Halifax apprehended and committed to close confinement by Commander Arbuthnot for speaking respectfully of the independent states of America and disrespectfully of the King, termed a Tyrant. Suggestion for retaliation against internal enemies in Boston.