The Group

); Commodore Bateau (Loring). The significance of these names will be apparent to student of local Colonial history.

[6] The /Group,/ A / Farce: / As lately Acted, and to be Re-acted, to the Wonder/ of all superior Intelligences; /Nigh Head Quarters, at/ Amboyne. /In Two Acts./ New-York: / Printed by John Anderson,/ at Beekman's-Slip./ [The Boston edition was printed and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, 1775.]

[Illustration: THE

GROUP,

A

FARCE:

As lately Acted, and to be Re-acted, to the Wonder of all superior Intelligences;

NIGH HEAD QUARTERS, AT

AMBOYNE.

IN TWO ACTS.

JAMAICA, PRINTED; PHILADELPHIA, RE-PRINTED; BY JAMES HUMPHREYS, junior, in Front-street.

M,DCC,LXXV.

FAC-SIMILE TITLE-PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION]

The AUTHOR has thought proper to borrow the following spirited lines from a late celebrated Poet, and offer to the public, by way of PROLOGUE, which cannot fail of pleasing at this crisi