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Massachusetts Spy-Boston             
MS-B.774.062                                                            
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[In a letter from concerning current events."  In middle of             
second column:]                                                         
How many useful mechanics are scattered over this wide                  
extended continent, who, a few years since, were measuring              
their steps, to the sound of a fife and drum; but are now               
eating the bread of industry, and living with their families            
in peace and plenty? . . . [signed] An Old Man.  From my                
hermitage near Falmouth, Casco-Bay, June, 1774.