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Excerpt from Our Uncle the Major: A Story of New York in 1765
The joyful intelligence of the repeal of the Stamp Act was brought to New York by Major James, who came passenger in the Hynde, from Plymouth. The city was filled with delight. Bells rang a merry peal, cannons roared, and placards everywhere appeared call ing a meeting of the citizens at Howard's the next day to celebrate the event. Hundreds as sembled, and marching in procession to 'the fields, ' they fired a royal salute of twenty-one guns upon the spot where the City Hall now stands. The city was illuminated in the eve.
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