Itâs easy to imagine the scene early New Yearâs Day in 1806 as a group of young revelers from the Morgantown area walked home after a night out.
They had been making the rounds, âshooting in the new year,â according to a brief item in the Jan. 4, 1806,Â
Reading Weekly Advertiser, as reprinted by the
Reading Times, Jan. 12, 1872.
No doubt they drank a good deal of alcohol as they made their way from farm to farm, waking families with blasts of black powder from muzzle-loaded shotguns, wishing them well in the new year and demanding food and drink.
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