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10: Who stole grandma’s body?!: The Doctor’s Riots of 1788

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The Death of a White Woman

A group of medical students broke into a church graveyard and stole the body of a white woman. The next morning, an angry mob started to gather because they wanted to take this woman's body back to her grave. They decided to go back to the doctors houses and search for any other sing bodies they might have. Some historians say that john hicks was in one of the houses the mob checked but he was hiding in someone's chimney.

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