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BG.772.016
9 Mar 1772:12-13 (883)
Boston, March 9. The committee appointed by this town at
their annual meeting in March last, to make application to
some suitable gentleman to deliver an oration on the fifth
instant, upon the dangerous tendency of standing armies, and
in commemoration of the horrid massacre perpetrated by a
party of the 29th Regiment on the evening of the fifth of
March, 1770. . . [1st full para. 13:]
In the evening a select number of the true 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 perpetrated
near that spot. . .. [16 lines:]
At a quarter after nine, the painting was taken in, and
the bells muffled toll'd 'till ten. . . [1 more para]
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