Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
An oration; delivered March 5, 1774, at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston: to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March 1770. By the Honorable John Hancock, Esq; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil].
Call Number
104.13
EX Lapidus 2.28
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/08612p26r
Publisher
Boston : Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]
Language
English
Date Created
1774
Extent
20, [2] p. ; 25.5 x 20 cm. (fol.)
Provenance
WHS copy acquired 3/13/29 from Goodspeed; inv. 616.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959 2010
References
ESTC W21489
Sabin 30177
Church 1104
Evans, 13314
Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 117a
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCW21489.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
This catalogue record is derived in large part from a record for an electronic reproduction.
Half-title: An oration delivered March fifth, 1774.
Authorship of the oration has been attributed to Samuel Adams, to Benjamin Church and Joseph Warren, and to Samuel Cooper. See T.R. Adams, who notes "In all probability a number of Boston radicals had a hand in its composition." -.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Disbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Boston Massacre, 1770—Anniversaries, etc
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783—Causes

Physical Characteristics

File Count
22

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

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