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An oration; delivered March 5, 1774 : at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston: to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March 1770. / By the Honorable John Hancock, Esq; ; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil].
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 13315
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Hancock, John, 1737-1793.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13315.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston Massacre, 1770--Anniversaries, etc.
- Boston Massacre, 1770.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 20 pages ; 23 cm (4to)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Edition:
- (The second edition.).
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]
- Notes:
- Authorship of the oration has been attributed to Samuel Adams, to Benjamin Church and Joseph Warren, and to Samuel Cooper. See T.R. Adams, who notes, "In all probability a number of Boston radicals had a hand in its composition."
- Half-title: An oration delivered March fifth, 1774.
- Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing edition statement.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13315).
- Cited in:
- Evans 13315
- Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 117b
- OCLC:
- 234212483
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