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to be gone on a certain day; but inafmuch as he defired to keep the thing from being known to George^ the chief captain, he kept the labourers at their work, as though he in- clined to keep the city.
7. And it came to pafs, in the fixth month, on the eighteenth day of the month, and m thefecond year* after the people of the Pro- vinces had throv/n off the yoke o^ George the king y that the holl of Britain departed out of the city.
8. And the (hips alfo moved do v/n the river; and the feci of the tories were aftoniihed out of meafure : inafmuch as they had hoped that their habitations in the city, and all their fluff would have been preferved, and the city poifefTed by the men of Britain, until George^ the king, fhould reign and rule as in days paft.
9. And the hofl of Britain pafled over the river into the province of Jerfey, and they
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