[95]. Joseph Johnson: “Traditions and Reminiscences” (1851), p. 71. “The punishment of banishment, preceded by the more dreadful operation of tarring and feathering,” was put in execution by a “judicial Association” in the early days of a settlement on the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. See R. G. Jameson: “New Zealand, South Australia, and New South Wales” (London, 1842), pp. 190–191.
The Yankee, June 4, 1813, p. 4, cited one of the laws of the naval code established during the reign of Richard I as the “Origin of Tarring and Feathering.” By this law any one lawfully convicted of stealing should have his head shorn, and boiling pitch poured upon his head, and feathers or down strewed upon the same, whereby he might be known until the next landing place was reached, where he was to be left.—See Hakluyt’s “Voyages,” II, 21.
[96]. The writer is indebted to Mr. Albert Matthews for the facts which are here presented in regard to the practice of tarring and feathering previous to the year 1775.
[97]. Salem Gazette, Sept. 6–13, 1768 (No. 7, p. 27). Boston Evening Post, Sept. 12, 1768 (No. 1720, p. 3). “Diaries of B. Lynde & B. Lynde, Jr.” (1880), p. 192.
[98]. Boston Evening Post, Sept. 19, 1768 (No. 1721, p. 3).
[99]. Essex Gazette, Sept. 20–27, 1768 (No. 9, p. 37).
[100]. Boston Evening-Post, June 19, 1769 (No. 1760, p. 3).
[101]. Boston Gazette, Sept. 25, 1769 (No. 755, p. 3).
[102]. Boston Gazette, Oct. 16, 1769 (No. 758, p. 2).
[103]. No. 140, II, 351.