Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
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. Printed by order of the town of Boston.
Call Number
104.7
Lapidus 5.1933
0099.695 v.42
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcz316qb85k
Publisher
Boston, sold by Edes & Gill, in Queen street, and T. & J. Fleet in Cornhill, 1770.
Language
English
Date Created
1770
Extent
48, 88 p. 19 cm. (8vo).
Provenance
WHS copy acquired 7/18/36 from Goodspeed's; inv. 612.
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on front free end paper 'James T. Mouton, Lynn, Jan 24 / [18]68'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W29420
Sabin 80669.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
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.
"Appendix containing the several depositions referred to in the preceding narrative .."--p. [1]-80, 2nd count.
Lapidus copy lacks p. 73-88 (2nd count).
WIT copy is no. 1 of a volume of pamphlets.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Disbound.
WHS copy bound by Pawson & Nicholson.

Discovery Information

Subject
Boston Massacre, 1770

Physical Characteristics

File Count
125

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/db59c7e3-217d-485a-9472-2c8b6e12c6a2/manifest