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NYM(G.771.045
18 Mar 1771:23 (1012)
Boston, March 7. Tuesday last being the anniversary of the
melancholy fifth of March, 1770, when Mess. Gray, Maverick,
Caldwell, Carr, and Attucks, were killed by a party of
soldiers in Kingstreet:---The bells of the several
Congregational meeting-houses, were tolled from XII o'clock
at noon till I.---. . . [25 more lines describing events] 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when the exhibition was withdrawn, and the people all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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