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A Short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston, [electronic resource] : perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770. By soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment; which with the XIVth Regiment were then quartered there: with some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pemberton, Samuel, 1723-1799., Author.
- Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775., Author.
- Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston Massacre, 1770.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (38,81,[i.e., 83],[1]p. )
- Other Title:
- Short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston,
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : Printed by order of the town of Boston, and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, and T. & J. Fleet, in Cornhill, 1770.
- Notes:
- At a town meeting March 12, 1770, James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren and Samuel Pemberton were appointed a committee to prepare a particular account of the massacre. The "Short narrative" was prepared, accepted at a town meeting held March 19, and ordered immediately printed.
- CSmH reports copy with folded frontispiece "engrav'd, printed & sold by Paul Revere Boston."
- Errors in paging: p. 81-83 misnumbered 79-81.
- "Apendix containing the several depositions referred to in the preceding narrative .."--p. [1]-80, 2nd count. With an erratum statement at foot of p. 78, and certifications of authenticity, p. 79-80.
- "An index to the appendix."--p. [81-83].
- Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 11580
- Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 75b
- Sabin, 80669
- Sabin, 80668
- English Short Title Catalog, W3991.
- OCLC:
- 510892519
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