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 Hon. 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. 13317.
Publisher: Reprinted and sold by S. Southwick, in Queen-Street
Published: 1774
Place of publication: Newport, Rhode-Island
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Boston Massacre, 1770 -- Anniversaries, etc; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes
Notes: Half-title: An oration delivered March fifth, 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."

Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ C² (C2 verso blank).

Evans 13317.

Alden, J.E.  Rhode Island, 542.

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

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13317).