An oration; delivered March 5, 1774
Subtitle: at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston: to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March, 1770.
By: By the Honorable John Hancock, Esq; ; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil]
Contributors: Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803.; Church, Benjamin, 1734-1778.; Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775.; Cooper, Samuel, 1725-1783.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 13316.
Publisher: Re-printed by Thomas and Samuel Green.
Published: 1774
Place of publication: New-Haven
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Boston Massacre, 1770 -- Anniversaries, etc; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes
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."

Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ (B4 verso blank).

Evans 13316.

Trumbull, J.H.  Connecticut, 794.

Adams, T.R.  Amer. pamphlets, 117d.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13316).