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BNL.771.022
7 Mar 1771:32 (3518)
Boston. . . Tuesday past being the anniversary of the
melancholy fifth of March, 1770, when Messi. Gray, Maverick,
Caldwell, Carr, and Attucks, were killed by a party of
soldiers in King-street:--The bells of the several
congregational meeting-houses, were tolled from XII o'clock
at noon till I.--In the evening there was a very striking
exhibition at the house of Mr. Paul Revere, fronting the
Old-North Square, so called:--At one of the chamber-windows
was the appearance of the ghost of Christopher Seider, with
one of his fingers in the wound, endeavouring to stop the
blood issuing therefrom. . . In the next window were
represented the soldiers drawn up, firing at the people
assembled before them . . .
The whole was so well executed that the spectators, which
amounted to some thousands, were struck with solemn silence,
and their countenances covered with a melancholy gloom. At
nine o'clock the bells tolled a doleful peal, until ten,
when the exhibition was withdrawn, and the people all
retired to their respective habitations.
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