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

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].

Author/creator	Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Boston : Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]
Description	20 pages ; 23 cm (folio)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Boston Massacre, 1770--Anniversaries, etc. United States--History --Revolution, 1775-1783 --Causes.

Other author/creator	Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803.
Other author/creator	Church, Benjamin, 1734-1778.
Other author/creator	Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775.
Other author/creator	Cooper, Samuel, 1725-1783.
Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13314. ^A478749
General note	Half-title: An oration delivered March fifth, 1774.
General note	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."
References	Evans 13314
References	Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 117a
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13314).

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