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A Poem, in Memory of the (never to be forgotten) Fifth of March, 1770

A Poem, in Memory of the (never to be forgotten) Fifth of March, 1770 Broadside
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Broadside

36 cm x 23 cm

[Boston] : Printed and sold next to the Writing-School, in Queen-Street., [1770]


The broadside verse commemorates the victims of the Boston Massacre. Each of the caskets bears the initials of one of the five dead Bostonians: Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Carr. A sixth casket bears the initials CS, for Christopher Seider, an eleven year old boy who was killed in a skirmish on 22 February 1770.