The bloody massacre perpetrated in King - Street Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt. engrav'd printed & sold by Paul Revere, Boston ; re-engraved by Sidney L. Smith
Summary
Print shows British troops firing on a group of citizens on a street in Boston, Massachusetts, with the Royal Custom House known as "Butcher's Hall" on the right, the First Church and Town House in the background. Some of the wounded are being carried away from the scene, others lie in the street. Includes 18 lines of verse and a list of those killed and wounded.
Printed on lower left corner: No. 35 of an edition of seventy-five and the plate destroyed.
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Date
01/01/1908
Location
boston
Source
Library of Congress
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