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6604. PEOPLE, New England.—

The adventurous
genius and intrepidity of those peo
ple [New Englanders] is amazing. They are
now intent on burning Boston as a hive which
gives cover to [British] regulars; and none
are more bent upon it than the very people
who come out of it, and whose prosperity
lies there.—
To Francis Eppes. Ford ed., i, 461.
(Pa., July 4, 1775)