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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In New York on Thursday evening, inhabitants intercepted a boat from a British transport in the North River carrying two Black freemen and two white men, questioned them before Congress, discharged most, detained one suspicious man, and burned the boat amid public cheers.
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Thursday Evening a Boat being perceived coming from the Transport lying in North River, in which were two Negroes and two white Men; they were waited upon when they came on Shore by a Number of the Inhabitants to know upon what Design they were on; but receiving but little Satisfaction from them, they were all carried before the Congress. The Negroes said they were Freemen, and had been hired to carry two Women on board the Transport, which they did, and then fetched these Men on Shore. The Negroes and one of the white Men were discharged, the other being a suspicious Fellow, and of a refractory Temper, was committed to the Care of the Guard in the Barracks, till further Examination. The People that were on the Wharf, drew the Boat out of the Water, and carried it to the Commons, where they set it on Fire, and reduced it to ashes, amidst the Acclamations of Thousands.
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New York
Event Date
Thursday Evening
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negroes and one white man discharged; other white man committed for further examination; boat burned.
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Inhabitants intercepted boat from transport in North River with two Negroes and two white men, questioned their purpose, took them before Congress; Negroes claimed to be freemen hired to transport women then fetch men; people on wharf seized and burned the boat on the Commons amid acclamations.