Rag Linen | Online Museum of Historic Newspapers » Samuel Adams http://raglinen.com Rag Linen | Online Museum and Educational Archive of Rare and Historic Newspapers Sun, 13 May 2012 15:51:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston http://raglinen.com/2010/03/03/a-short-narrative-of-the-horrid-massacre-in-boston/ http://raglinen.com/2010/03/03/a-short-narrative-of-the-horrid-massacre-in-boston/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:22:09 +0000 RagLinen http://raglinen.com/?p=2148 At a town meeting on March 12, 1770 — one week after the Boston Massacre — James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren and Samuel Pemberton were appointed to a committee to prepare the Patriot account of the massacre.

According to John Doggett Jr.’s 1849 enhanced edition of the Patriot account, during that March 12 meeting a “report made by John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and others” was presented to the citizens of Boston.  “The whole presenting, it is believed, the most complete and authentic account which has been published of the massacre.”

This report by Hancock, Adams, Warren, et al. was also published in the March 13 to 20, 1770 issue of the Essex Gazette, printed in Salem, Massachusetts, about 18 miles north of Boston. To help commemorate this Friday’s 240th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, below are 24 images from that famous edition of the Essex Gazette.

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