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BUTCHERSHALL

CUSTOM HOUSE

BOSTON MASSACRE, MARCH 5, 1770. E

NARRATIVE

OF THE

HORRID MASSACRE IN BOSTON,

PERPETRATED IN THE

EVENING OF THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH, 1770,

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PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON,

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AND SOLD BY EDES & GILL, IN QUEEN STREET, AND T. & J. FLEET,
IN CORNHILL, 1770.

NEW YORK: RE-PUBLISHED WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS,
BY JOHN DOGGETT, JR.

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U.S.2855.24

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,

BY JOHN DOGGETT, JR.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the
Southern District of New York.

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NOTE.

THE following pages contain the original official account of the BOSTON MASSACRE of the 5th of March, 1770. It was drawn up by a committee appointed by the town, consisting of the Honorable JAMES BOWDOIN, Dr. JOSEPH WARREN, and SAMUEL PEMBERTON, Esq. The report was submitted to a town meeting held at Faneuil Hall, by adjournment, on the 19th of March, and was ordered to be printed. It was intended principally for circulation in England, and a vessel was chartered by the town to take out copies to London. To the copies circulated in America, were added a Circular Letter, addressed by the Committee to the Duke of Richmond, and other distinguished personages in England.

The frontispiece representing the massacre, is a fac-simile of an original engraving in the library of the New York Historical Society, engraved and published in Boston immediately after the event, by PAUL REVERE. It is supposed to give a somewhat exaggerated idea, however, of the scene it purports to represent. The sign of "Butcher's Hall," affixed to the custom-house, is, of course, a fancy title.

The plan of the town of Boston, copied from one published in the "Gentleman's and London Magazine," for 1774, may be useful to those unacquainted with the changes in the streets, their names, &c., since that period.

The present edition, with the exception of the subjoined "Additional Observations," which are obtained from a copy of this work in the library of Harvard College, is an exact reprint from an original in the library of the New York Historical Society, containing the full appendix, certificates, and circular of the Committee. To which is prefixed an account of the events of the few days preceding the massacre, drawn up by the late Hon. ALDEN BRADFORD; and the Report

made by JOHN HANCOCK, SAMUEL ADAMS, JOSEPH WARREN, and others, presented at the meeting of the citizens on the 12th of March. The whole presenting, it is believed, the most complete and authentic account which has been published of the massacre.

Such additional explanatory notes as have been deemed necessary for the convenience of the reader, are distinguished from the original notes by the initial--D.

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