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CG-NL.771.018
22 Mar 1771:13 (8/384)
Boston, March 11. Tuesday last was the anniversary of the
never-to-be-forgotten 5th of March, 1770, when Messirs Gray,
Maverick, Caldwell, Carr & Attucks, were inhumanely murdered
by a party of soldiers of the 29th Regiment in King-street:-
- The bells of the several Congregational Meeting Houses
were tolled from twelve o'clock at noon till one: -- In the
evening there was a very striking exhibition at the dwelling
house of Mr. Paul Revere, fronting on Old North Square: at
one of the chamber windows was the appearance of the ghost
of the unfortunate young Sneider, with one of his fingers in
the wound, endeavoring to stop the blood issuing therefrom:
near him his friends weeping:
. . . [22 lines, further describing the exhibition]
At nine o'clock in the evening the bells tolled a doleful
peal until ten; when the exhibition was withdrawn, and the
people retired to their respective habitations.
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