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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Philadelphia honors General Montgomery and fallen officers from Quebec with a funeral procession on Feb. 19, inviting assembly, mayor, committees, and military units to join the Continental Congress at the state-house, proceeding to the Calvinist church with clergy.
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We hear that the hon. house of assembly, the mayor and corporation, the committees of safety and inspection, the city battalions and rifle companies, are invited to attend the Hon. Continental Congress this day, in the procession and funeral solemnities appointed to the memory of general MONTGOMERY, and the other brave officers and men who gloriously fought and fell with him in the cause of American liberty, before Quebec:
The procession will set out from the state-house at 11 o'clock, and passing up Fourth street to the new Calvinist church, will be joined at doctor Smith's house by the clergy of the city and faculty of the college. No person can be admitted into the body of the church till the procession enters, but a part of the gallery, capable of obtaining about 400 persons, will be reserved for ladies and strangers whose publick spirit may induce them to honour the solemnity.
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Philadelphia
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Feb. 19.
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gloriously fought and fell with him in the cause of american liberty, before quebec
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the hon. house of assembly, the mayor and corporation, the committees of safety and inspection, the city battalions and rifle companies, are invited to attend the Hon. Continental Congress this day, in the procession and funeral solemnities appointed to the memory of general MONTGOMERY, and the other brave officers and men who gloriously fought and fell with him in the cause of American liberty, before Quebec: The procession will set out from the state-house at 11 o'clock, and passing up Fourth street to the new Calvinist church, will be joined at doctor Smith's house by the clergy of the city and faculty of the college. No person can be admitted into the body of the church till the procession enters, but a part of the gallery, capable of obtaining about 400 persons, will be reserved for ladies and strangers whose publick spirit may induce them to honour the solemnity.