The Bostonians in distress, en sanguine engraving 1774, Bostonians held captive in a cage suspended from the Liberty Tree. Three British sailors standing in a boat feed them fish from a basket labeled To -from the Committee of in return for a bundle of papers labeled Promises around the tree and in the background are cannons and British troops. The paper in the hand of one jailed Bostonian says, They tried with the Lord in their Troubl & he saved them out of their Distress. CVIL 13.
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The Bostonians in distress, en sanguine engraving 1774, Bostonians held captive in a cage suspended from the Liberty Tree. Three British sailors standing in a boat feed them fish from a basket labeled To -from the Committee of in return for a bundle of papers labeled Promises around the tree and in the background are cannons and British troops. The paper in the hand of one jailed Bostonian says, They tried with the Lord in their Troubl & he saved them out of their Distress. CVIL 13.

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1774

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