Citation - Essex Gazette: 1772.03.10

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Index Entry Bells, in Boston, tolled for anniversary of massacre 
Location Boston 
Citation
EG.772.008
3-10 Mar 1772:1312 (4/189)
Boston, March 5.  [Report on commemoration of the massacre
of March, 1770] . . . [24 lines follow]
At night a select number of the Friends of Constitutional
Liberty, met at Mrs. Clapham's in King-Street, and exhibited
on the balcony a lanthorn of transparent paintings, having
in front a lively representation of the bloody massacre
which was perpetuated near that spot on the 5th of March
1770.  Over their heads was inscribed, "The fatal effects of
a standing army, posted in a free city."  On the right,
America sitting in a mourning posture, looking down on the
spectators, with this label, "Behold my sons."  On the left
a monument, sacred to the memory of Messirs Samuel Grey,
Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Patrick Carr, and Crispus
Attucks, who were barbarously murdered by a party of the
29th Regiment on the 5th of March 1770.
At a quarter after nine, the painting was taken in, and the
bells muffled toll'd till ten.  The solemnity of the whole
day, and especially the evening, was truly affecting.


Generic Title Essex Gazette 
Date 1772.03.10 
Publisher Hall, Samuel and Ebenezer 
City, State Salem, MA 
Year 1772 
Bibliography B0016136
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