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BG.770.013
12 Mar 1770:22,31 (779)
[re. Boston Massacre:] Boston, March 12. . . [22:] Mr.
Samuel Maverick, a promising youth of 17 years of age, son
of the widow Maverick, and an apprentice to Mr. Greenwood,
ivory-turner, mortally wounded, a ball went through his
belly, & was cut out at his back: He died the next morning.
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The people were immediately alarmed with the report of
this horrid massacre, the bells were set a ringing, and
great numbers soon assembled at the place where this
tragical scene had been acted;. . .
[31:] On this occasion [funerals for the 4 killed] most of
the shops in town were shut, all the bells were ordered to
toll a solemn peal, as were also those in the neighboring
towns of Charlestown Roxbury, &c. The procession began to
move between the hours of 4 and 5 in the afternoon; two of
the unfortunate sufferers, viz. Mess. James Caldwell and
Crispus Attucks, who were strangers, borne from
Faneuil-Hall, attended by a numerous train of persons of all
ranks; and the other two, viz. Mr. Samuel Gray, from the
house of Mr. Benjamin Gray, (his brother) on the North-side
of the Exchange, and Mr. Maverick, from the house of his
distressed mother Mrs. Mary Maverick, in Union-Street,. . .
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