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Extract of a letter from Boston: Captain Proctor is confined in the goal in Halifax, and is treated barbarously

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EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1776.

Captain Proctor is confined in the common gaol in Halifax, is treated most barbarously, and has been in irons ten

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weeks on board the Mercury man-of-war. They threaten to take away his life, but he despises their threats; all that he wants is to meet his enemies in the field. He has been in Halifax gaol about five weeks, together with Colonel Allen, Mr˙ Lovell, and twenty-eight others.

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