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But the excitement and license of war soon closed the era of good manners. A glaring outrage was committed by some of the soldiers, months before the battle of Lexington, on the person of a countryman, who came into town to purchase a musket. Happening to enquire of a soldier where he could get one—and the suspicion being started that he wanted to buy for the town's people—he was first beguiled out of a sum of money, and then a hue and cry raised against him, which ended with his being barbarously tarred and feathered. The Selectmen of Billerica demanded satisfaction of Gage, in most spirited terms, but got none.

From: TRAITS of THE TEA PARTY: being a MEMOIR OF GEORGE R.T. HEWES, one of the last of its survivors; with a HISTORY OF THAT TRANSACTION, REMINISCENCES OF THE MASSACRE, AND THE SIEGE, AND OTHER STORIES OF OLD TIMES. BY A BOSTONIAN., by Thatcher, B. B. (Benjamin Bussey), published 1835.

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But the excitement and license of war soon closed the era of good manners. A glaring outrage was committed by some of the soldiers, months before the battle of Lexington, on the person of a countryman, who came into town to purchase a musket. Happening to enquire of a soldier where he could get one—and the suspicion being started that he wanted to buy for the town's people—he was first beguiled out of a sum of money, and then a hue and cry raised against him, which ended with his being barbarously tarred and feathered. The Selectmen of Billerica demanded satisfaction of Gage, in most spirited terms, but got none.

From: TRAITS of THE TEA PARTY: being a MEMOIR OF GEORGE R.T. HEWES, one of the last of its survivors; with a HISTORY OF THAT TRANSACTION, REMINISCENCES OF THE MASSACRE, AND THE SIEGE, AND OTHER STORIES OF OLD TIMES. BY A BOSTONIAN., by Thatcher, B. B. (Benjamin Bussey), published 1835.