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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].
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 13316 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hancock, John, 1737-1793, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13316.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston Massacre, 1770--Anniversaries, etc.
- Boston Massacre, 1770.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (15 pages, 1 unnumbered page)
- Place of Publication:
- New-Haven: : Re-printed by Thomas and Samuel Green., M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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."
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 13316).
- Cited in:
- Evans 13316
- Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 794
- Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 117d
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- Restricted for use by site license.
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