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15. And the fhlps of the king moved up the riverj and as they paffed by the Iflaad of Sul- livan^ Pinckncy^ a captain and a valiant man, fhot at the fliips and they were marred.

36. And it came to pafs, in the fourth month, on the twentieth day of the month; that Clinton^ the king's captain, was ftrength- ened by three thoufand men, from the city of York.

17. Therefore, on the morning of the next day, the men of war, even the chief men in the town confuUed together, and fent a mef- fenger to Clinton tht king's captain, with cer- tain propofais.

18. But he would not hearken to the words of the meffenger, for he fupnofed that he fhould (hortly take the city and all that was

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19. Then the people who were with Liti" coin fought valiantly, and fhot at the men of Britain from the battlements, and from the

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