The Principles of Peace Exemplified in the Conduct of the Society of Friends in
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"In the evening, the captain of the Insurgents collected his forces of pikemen, &c. , in the plain between Narramore and Ballitore, to the number of two or three hundred, and marched them down to take possession of Ballitore, which was this morning evacuated by the soldiers. A. Shackleton, with his boys, from the top of Nine-tree Hill, was witness to the awful procession, not knowing to what lengths the popular transport might carry an exasperated people. So, letting them pass by, he led. His l...ittle corps of infantry [the dear, alarmed hoys) round by the back of the garden, into the house ; and, about five o'clock, the pikemen, with various descriptions of armor, entered his parlor, and found him sitting with his family and the dear boys, in awful quiet They behaved with respect, but asked peremptorily for provisions, which we handed out to them, and they retired. Our poor neighbors, fearing pillage of property, now began to flock to our house ; so, as my school was small, we had room to accommodate about one hundred persons, men, w^omen, and children, who, day and night, collected up and down in our houses.
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