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

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

Narrative of the massacre in Boston.

London : Reprinted for E. and C. Dilly ..., and J. Almon ..., 1770.

166 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

L2003F128 1770

(OCoLC)06449913

Spine title: Narrative of the massacre in Boston.
Signatures: [A] B-V X(-X4)
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.
Expanded from the earlier Boston ed.
"Appendix. Containing several despositions referred to in the preceding narrative; and also other despositions relative to the subject of it.": p. 34-166.
Includes index.
Library copy lacks frontispiece.
Digitized image available [page 11].

Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed.) B 632
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