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"FIELDS," MEETING IN THE. 6 July 1774. Presided over by Alexander McDougall, a mass meeting of radicals heard Alexander Hamilton speak against British measures and ended by deciding to send New York delegates to the first Continental Congress. The site of the meeting is now City Hall Park in New York City.

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