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Author (contributor):
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Revere, Paul, 1735-1818.
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Author (contributor):
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Pemberton, Samuel, 1723-1799.
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Author (contributor):
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Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775.
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Author (contributor):
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Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790.
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Title:
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A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston, : 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. ; To which is added, an appendix, containing the several depositions referred to in this preceding narrative; and also other depositions relative to the subject of it.
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Publisher:
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Boston printed by order of the town by Messrs Edes and Gill and re-printed for W Bingley in Newgate-Street London
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Begin Publication Date:
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1770
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MMS Id (Alma identifier):
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991014018369706966
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Permanent Call Number:
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D770 .S559s2
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Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
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STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 36662
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Uniform Resource Identifier:
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https://archive.org/details/shortnarrativeof00unse_0
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Subjects:
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Boston Massacre, 1770.
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Subjects:
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Massacres--Massachusetts.
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Subjects:
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Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Subjects:
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Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Subjects:
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United States--History--Causes.--Revolution, 1775-1783
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Subjects:
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Imprint 1770.
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General Note:
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First printed in 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 (Adams, T.R. Brit. pamphlets, 70-5a and Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 75a); A line by line reprint of the 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 issue, [Adams] 70-5b. Cf. Adams.; A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston was drawn up by a committee consisting of James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren, and Samuel Pemberton near the month of April 1770, who were appointed by the town meeting in Boston on March 12, 1770. A number of issues and permutations of this title exist. For a complete detailed analysis see Adams, T.R. Brit. pamphlets 70-5 and Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 75.; "Appendix containing the several depositions referred to in the preceding narrative; and also other depositions relative to the subject of it": p. [1]-80, 2nd count; 96 depositions are given on p. [1]-77.; Certifications of authenticity: p. 78-80, 3rd count.; "An index to the appendix", p. 81-83, 3rd count, indexes the names of the deposers.; Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-P⁴ (E1, P4 versos blank); Errors in paging: p. 8, 1st count, misnumbered 6.; Engraved folded frontispiece, by Paul Revere, depicts British redcoats shooting at the the townfolk of Boston.
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Local Note:
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John Carter Brown Library copy has numerous contemporary ms. annotations in unknown hand.
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