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far as the centre of their hollow square, and read a written resignation of his seat at the council board. A large detachment then moved to Rutland to deal with Murray. The next day at noon Wilder of Templeton and Holden of Princeton brought up their companies, and by three in the afternoon, about fifteen hundred men had assembled, most of them armed with bludgeons. But Murray had escaped on the previous evening, just before the sentries were set round his house and along the roads; they therefore sent him a letter requiring him to resign. The temper of the people brooked no division; they held every person that would not join them an enemy to his country. The consequences of your proceedings will be rebellion, confiscation and death, said the Chap. VIII.} 1774. Aug. younger Murray; and his words were as oil to the flame. No consequences, they replied to him, are so dreadful to a free people as that of being made slaves. This, wrote he to his brother, is not the language