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CG-NL.770.018
16 Mar 1770:23 (7/331)
Boston, March 12. The town of Boston affords a recent and
melancholy demonstration of the destructive consequences of
quartering troops among citizens in a time of peace, under a
pretence of supporting the laws and aiding civil authority;
. . . [16 paragraphs describing a disturbance between the
British soldiers and citizens of Boston]
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;
. . . [Several paragraphs on the disturbance and its
aftermath]
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