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SCGCJ.771.020
9 Apr 1771:21 (279)
Boston, March 11. 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 Churches were tolled from twelve o'clock at
noon till one.
. . . [Demonstrations and exhibitions described]
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when the exhibition was withdrawn, and the people all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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