Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
An oration, delivered March fifth, 1773. At the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston; to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March, 1770. By Dr. Benjamin Church. [Seven lines from Virgil]
Call Number
104.12
Lapidus 5.271
Identifier
ark:/88435/sx61dw902
Publisher
Boston : Printed and sold [by Joseph Greenleaf] at the new printing-office, in Hanover Street near Concert-Hall, M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]
Language
English
Date Created
1773
Extent
20, [2] p. ; 23.9 x 18.6 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Princeton copy 2 WHS copy acquired 5/8/30 from Goodspeed; inv. 615.
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on half title 'Sam Huntington, Norwich.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W28769
Sabin 12983
Evans, 12721
Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 94a
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
This catalogue record is derived in large part from a record for an electronic reproduction.
Joseph Greenleaf printed at the Hanover Street address in 1773.
With a half-title.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
25

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c274ded0-256a-4151-ba98-7d374ab6704c/manifest