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]
Hancock, John,1737-1793.
Adams, Samuel,1722-1803.
Church, Benjamin,1734-1778.
Cooper, Samuel,1725-1783.
Warren, Joseph,1741-1775.
New-Haven : Re-printed by Thomas and Samuel Green,
M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]
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." -.
Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets,
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Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut,
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