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GG(J.770.012
11 Apr 1770:41,42 (340)
Boston, March 12. On the evening of Monday, being the 5th
current, several soldiers of the 29th regiment were seen
parading the streets with their drawn cutlasses and
bayonets, abusing and wounding numbers of the inhabitants. .
. [account of riots. At bottom of column:]
An apprehension of a settled plan for a general if not
universal massacre, from such barbarous outrages, in
conjunction with their former attacks and continued menaces,
justly alarmed the people: -- the bells were set a ringing,
and great numbers assembled. . .
[Description of addresses, replies, and removal of troops.]
Last Thursday, agreeable to a general request of the
inhabitants, and by the consent of parents and friends, were
carried to their grave in succession, the bodies of . . . [4
victims] who fell in the bloody massacre of the Monday
evening preceding: On this occasion most of the shops in the
town were shut, all the bells were ordered to toll a solemn
peal, as were those in the neighbouring towns of
Charlestown, Roxbury, &c. . . The several hearses forming a
junction in King-street, the Theatre of that inhuman
tragedy; proceeded from thence through the Main-street. . .
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