Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
An oration delivered at Watertown, March 5, 1776. To commemorate the bloody massacre at Boston: perpetrated March 5, 1770. By Peter Thacher, A.M. [Seven lines in Latin from Phaedrus].
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1367
104.15
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc5h73q623v
Publisher
Watertown [Mass.] : Printed and sold by Benjamin Edes, on the bridge, M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]
Language
English
Date Created
1776
Extent
15, [1] p. ; 25.5 x 19.3 cm. (2⁰).
Provenance
WHS copy acquired 5/13/1929 from Goodspeed; inv. 619.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
Sabin 95172
Church 1140
Evans, 15101
Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 229
ESTC W21460
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Half-title: An oration delivered March fifth, 1776.
Princeton copy 1 lacks half title.
Binding Note
WHS copy: Bound in 20th cent. goatskin-backed boards.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
15

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0d75ea1d-adbd-4a55-a642-30e174875dba/manifest