The bloody massacre perpetrated in King-Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt. : the unhappy sufferers were Mess.s Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, Jams. Caldwell, Crispus Attucks & Patk. Carr killed. Six wounded; two of them (Christe. The bloody massacre perpetrated in King-Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt. : the unhappy sufferers were Mess.s Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, Jams. Caldwell, Crispus Attucks & Patk. Carr killed. Six wounded; two of them (Christe. Hand-colored engraving. Paul Revere issued this famous print less than a month after the Boston Massacre, and it became an important piece of visual propaganda for colonial Americans. The New-York Historical Society's copy is one of the rare copies that show Crispus Attucks as a Black man. He was an American stevedore of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution. View Item
Text To the publick. New-York, October 5, 1774. : By Mr. Rivere [i.e. Revere], who left Boston on Friday last ... we have certain intelligence that the carpenters and masons who had inadvertently undertaken to erect barracks for the soldiers in that town ... u Broadside announcing Paul Revere's ride through New York and encouraging the mechanics of New York not to participate in the construction of barracks for the British soldiery. References: Evans 13674. View Item