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PC.771.017
11-18 Mar 1771:303 (218)
Boston, March 7. . . Tuesday last being the anniversary of
the melancholy fifth of March, 1770, when Messrs. 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: . . . [description of illuminated
pictures in windows of house.] In the third window was the
figure of a woman, representing America, sitting on the
stump of a tree, with a staff in her hand, and the cap of
Liberty on the top thereof, --one foot on the head of a
grenadier lying prostrate. --Her finger pointing to the
tragedy.
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when the exhibition was withdrawn, and the people all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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