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, Esquire. ; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil].

Author/creator Hancock, John
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed by J. Douglass M'Dougall, in Chesnut-Street, M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]
Description23 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; (8vo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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Other author/creatorAdams, Samuel, 1722-1803.
Other author/creatorChurch, Benjamin, 1734-1778.
Other author/creatorWarren, Joseph, 1741-1775.
Other author/creatorCooper, Samuel, 1725-1783.
SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 14097. ^A478749
General noteAuthorship 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 the work."
References Evans 14097
References Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 117e
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. 14097).

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