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EG.772.008
3-10 Mar 1772:1312 (4/189)
Boston, March 5. [Report on commemoration of the massacre
of March, 1770] . . . [24 lines follow]
At night a select number of the 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 perpetuated near that spot on the 5th of March
1770. Over their heads was inscribed, "The fatal effects of
a standing army, posted in a free city." On the right,
America sitting in a mourning posture, looking down on the
spectators, with this label, "Behold my sons." On the left
a monument, sacred to the memory of Messirs Samuel Grey,
Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Patrick Carr, and Crispus
Attucks, who were barbarously murdered by a party of the
29th Regiment on the 5th of March 1770.
At a quarter after nine, the painting was taken in, and the
bells muffled toll'd till ten. The solemnity of the whole
day, and especially the evening, was truly affecting.
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