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October had come, with an unusual glory of late wild-flowers and reddened leaves. The soldiers were still quartered upon the Neck, and owing to the many collisions between them and the townspeople, the Governor had seen fit to augment the force. Several times the citizens had almost determined to march to the Neck and exterminate the entire body of Britishers; but wiser counsels prevailed, and no attack was made. Governor Gage had issued a proclamation forbidding the assembling of the legislature which had been ca…