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 the preceding narrative, and also other depositions relative to the subject of it.
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
Bowdoin, James, Warren, Joseph, Pemberton, Samuel,
ResumoAt 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. "By the Honourable Thomas Hutchinson, Esq: lieutenant-governor ... I do hereby certify, that Richard Dana and John Ruddock, Esquires, are two of His Majesty's justices of the peace ... Three original certificates of the foregoing tenor ... are signed by the lieutenant-governor, and annexed to three printed copies of this pamphlet. Two of them will be sent to London for the satisfaction of such gentlemen in England as incline to see the originals, viz. One of them to William Bollan, Esq; and the other to Dennis De Bertdt, Esq;--the third remains with the committee."--P. 80, second group. "Appendix containing the several depositions referred to in the preceding narrative ... ."--P. 1-80, second group. "An index to the appendix."--P. 81-83, second group. Includes index. Book.
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