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BNL.770.018
15 Mar 1770:33 (3467)
Last Thursday, agreeable to a general request of the
inhabitants, and the consent of parents & others were
followed to their grave in succession. . . [3 lines] who
fell in the bloody massacre of the Monday evening preceding!
[woodcut of four coffins with initials of victims] On this
occasion many of the shops in town were shut, all the bells
tolled a solemn peal, as did those in the neighbouring towns
of Charlestown, Cambridge & Roxbury. The procession began
to move between the hours of 4 and 5 in the afternoon . . .
[9 lines] The several hearses forming a junction in King-
street, the Theatre of that inhuman tragedy! proceeded from
thence thro' the main-street, . . .
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