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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Students at Nassau-Hall in Princeton, indignant over New York merchants' letter announcing breach of Non-Importation Agreement, processed to burn the letter using a hired hangman, condemning the promoters as betrayers of liberty.
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"This Afternoon the Students at Nassau-Hall, fired with a just Indignation on reading the infamous Letter from the Merchants in New-York, to the Committee of Merchants in Philadelphia, informing them of their Resolutions, to send Home Orders for Goods, contrary to their Non-Importation Agreement; at the tolling of the College Bell, went in Procession to a Place fronting the College, and burnt the Letter by the Hands of a Hangman, hired for that Purpose, with hearty Wishes, that the Names of all Promoters of such a daring Breach of Faith, may be blasted in the Eyes of every Lover of Liberty, and their Names handed down to Posterity, as Betrayers of their Country."
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Primary Location
Princeton
Event Date
July 13
Outcome
letter burnt in protest; no other outcomes mentioned.
Event Details
Students at Nassau-Hall, angered by a letter from New York merchants to Philadelphia merchants announcing intent to order goods in violation of Non-Importation Agreement, marched in procession upon the college bell tolling and burnt the letter using a hired hangman, expressing wishes that promoters of the breach be condemned as betrayers of their country.