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CJ-NH.771.004
15 Mar 1771:23,31 (178)
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. . . [30 more lines describing the
exhibition, etc.] 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peal, until ten, when the exhibition was withdrawn, and the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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