A Poem, in memory of the (never to be forgotten) fifth of March, 1770. : On the evening of which, a party of the 29th. regiment commanded by Capt. Preston, fired upon the inhabitants in King-Street, by which five persons were killed viz. Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Carr.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42156.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boston Massacre, 1770--Poetry.

Boston Massacre, 1770.

Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Boston (Mass.).

Genre:

Broadsides.

Elegies.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations (relief cuts)

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : Printed and sold next to the Writing-School, in Queen-Street., [1770]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Verse in eleven numbered stanzas; first line: The rising sun bespeaks the mournful day.

In the tenth stanza reference is made to Christopher Monks who was severely wounded in the massacre and expected to die. In fact, he eventually recovered; therefore, it is likely that the poem was issued at Boston soon after the incident while Monk's condition was in doubt.

Text in two columns; relief cuts of five coffins at head and of a single coffin at head of second column (Reilly 1219 and 1214).

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 42156).

Cited in:

Bristol B3251

Shipton and Mooney 42156

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