Copy of a deposition of Hugh Williamson before the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, 1774 February 19, enclosed in Dartmouth to Gage, 1774 April 9

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The Information of Thigh
Williamson Doctor of Physie
lately arrived from Boston in
North America, taken before
the Lords of His Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council the
Nineteenth day of February
1771. who, being duly sworn on
the Holy Evangelists, deposeth
and saith
th
th
That on the Nor 13th of November 1773he
arrived at Boston from Rhode Island, with the
purpose of proceeding in the first Vessel for
London.
That being told the Inhabitants were
assembled in Town Mecting, he went to the
Public Hall, for the sake of gratifying his Curiosity
by observing, whether it was a rade Collection of
the lower Class of People, or an orderly Assembly
of respectable Citizens. That he had been told
the expected Tea was the occasion of their Meeting
and that there had been already one or two
Mectings on the same subject. That in a few
minutes after he entered the Hall, some
Gentlemen, who were said to be Select Men,
came in with a letter from some of the Sea
Consignies.
That the letter was read by
the