• Media type: E-Book
  • 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
  • Contributor: Edes, Benjamin [bookseller.]; Bowdoin, James [Other]; Bowdoin, James [Other]; Fleet, John [bookseller.]; Gill, John [bookseller.]; Warren, Joseph [Other]; Warren, Joseph [Other]; Pemberton, Samuel [Other]; Pemberton, Samuel [Other]; Fleet, Thomas [bookseller.]
  • imprint: [Boston]: Printed by order of the town of Boston, and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, and T. & J. Fleet, in Cornhill, 1770
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (38,81,[i.e., 83],[1]p); 8°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Boston Massacre, 1770 ; United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Causes
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "An index to the appendix."--p. [81-83]
    "Apendix containing the several depositions referred to in the preceding narrative .."--p. [1]-80, 2nd count. With an erratum statement at foot of p. 78, and certifications of authenticity, p. 79-80
    Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 75b
    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
    CSmH reports copy with folded frontispiece "engrav'd, printed & sold by Paul Revere Boston
    English Short Title Catalog, W3991
    Errors in paging: p. 81-83 misnumbered 79-81
    Evans, 11580
    Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library
    Sabin, 80668
    Sabin, 80669