| Title | A Short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston : perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770, by soldiers of the 29th Regiment, which with the 14th Regiment were then quartered there : with some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophe.
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| Published | New York : J. Doggett, Jr., 1849.
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| Description | 122 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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| General Note | "Printed by order of the town of Boston, and sold by Edes & Gill, in Queen Street, and T. & J. Fleet, in Cornhill, 1770."
"Republished with notes and illustrations by J. Doggett, Jr.", with the addition of: "Additional observations to a Short narrative ... 1770".
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.
Includes index.
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| Subjects | Boston Massacre, 1770.
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| Other Authors | Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790.
Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775.
Pemberton, Samuel, 1723-1799.
Doggett, John.
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| LC Card Number | 00-7234 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 215.4 S559
mq14823: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 9084] |
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