A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetuated 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. To which is added an Appendix, containing the Several Despositions referred to in the preceding Narrative; and also other Depositions relative to the Subject of it

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1770

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Title: A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetuated 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. To which is added an Appendix, containing the Several Despositions referred to in the preceding Narrative; and also other Depositions relative to the Subject of it
Publisher: William Bingley (British, 1738–1799)
Publisher: Originally published by Edes & Gill (Boston, Massachusetts)
Artist: Frontispiece after Paul Revere Jr. (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1734–1818 Boston, Massachusetts)
Artist: Frontispiece after Henry Pelham (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1749–1806 Dublin)
Date: 1770
Medium: Plate: engraving
Dimensions: 8 1/16 × 4 3/4 in. (20.4 × 12 cm)
frontispiece: 11 in. × 13 3/8 in. (28 × 34 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
Object Number: 24.90.1905(5)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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