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Title: Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years ..
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Common Council Willis, Samuel J Valentine, D. T. (David Thomas) 1801-1869 Shannon, Joseph Hardy, John
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Publisher: New York : The Council
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de of the town, and as I stood upon the dock I saw a car, drawnby two oxen and two horses, and a white man to drive it. Manyspectators saw it as well as I, and wondered to see it drive so furi-ously. I asked whose team it was. Answer, that it was ColonelM——s. I asked where they where going that they drove so furi-ously. Answer was made, it was going to M . By this time I saw the team run furiously into the river, in sight of all the be-holders, where it perished. But so soon as the team was sunk, I sawa great mastiff dog go into the river, and did fetch the driver out,and did shake him, and the driver turned, instantly, into a beast,with a pair of horns upon his head. (From the New York Weekly Post-Boy, of July 25, 1743.) Saturday last the men belonging to the Castor and Pollux, priva-teers, having found that a person who had entered on board of themtwo or three days before was a Avoman, they seized upon the unhap-py wretch, and ducked her three times from the yard-arm, and after-
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