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PGCJ.771.012
16 Mar 1771:31 (375)
Boston, March 11. Thursday last was the anniversary of the
never-to-be-forgotten fifth of March, 1770, when Messieurs
Gray, Maverick, Caldwell, Carr, and Attucks, were inhumanly
murdered by a party of soldiers of the XXIXth regiment, in
King-Street:--The bells of the several congregational
meeting houses were tolled from XII o'clock at noon till I.
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The whole was so well executed, that the spectators, which
amounted to many thousands, were struck with solemn silence,
and their countenances covered with a melancholy gloom. At
IX o'clock the bells tolled a doleful peal, until X; when
the exhibition was withdrawn, and the people retired to
their respective habitations.
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