An oration; delivered March 5, 1774 at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston: to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March, 1770. / By the Honorable John Hancock, Esq; ; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil]
| Author(s): | Hancock, John, 1737-1793 |
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| Online: | Connect to Early American Imprints |
| Location: |
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| Subjects: | Boston Massacre, 1770--Anniversaries, etc United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes |
| Formats: | Electronic Resource, Remote |
| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New-Haven: : Re-printed by Thomas and Samuel Green., M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774] |
| Series: | Early American imprints. First series no. 13316 |
| LC Classification: | P, PS |
| Additional Authors: | Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803 Church, Benjamin, 1734-1778 Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775 Cooper, Samuel, 1725-1783 |
| Notes: | Authorship of the oration has been attributed to Samuel Adams, to Benjamin Church and Joseph Warren, and to Samuel Cooper. See T.R. Adams, who notes "In all probability a number of Boston radicals had a hand in its composition." References: Evans 13316 References: Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 794 References: Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 117d Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series Reproduction notes: Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13316) |
| Physical Description: | 15, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo) |
| OCLC Number: | aas03021492e |