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Title

The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.

Summary

A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770. On the right a group of seven uniformed soldiers, on the signal of an officer, fire into a crowd of civilians at left. Three of the latter lie bleeding on the ground. Two other casualties have been lifted by the crowd. In the foreground is a dog; in the background are a row of houses, the First Church, and the Town House. Behind the British troops is another row of buildings including the Royal Custom House, which bears the sign (perhaps a sardonic comment) "Butcher's Hall." Beneath the print are 18 lines of verse, which begin: "Unhappy Boston! see thy Sons deplore, Thy hallowed Walks besmeared with guiltless Gore." Also listed are the "unhappy Sufferers" Saml Gray, Saml Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Carr (killed) and it is noted that there were "Six wounded; two of them (Christr Monk & John Clark) Mortally."

Contributor Names

Revere, Paul, 1735-1818, engraver

Created / Published

Boston : Engrav'd Printed & Sold by Paul Revere, 1770.

Subject Headings

- Attucks, Crispus,---1770

- Caldwell, James,--1734-1781

- Carr, Patrick,---1770

- Clark, John.---1770

- Gray, Samuel,---1770

- Maverick, Samuel

- Monk, Christopher

- Boston Massacre, 1770

- African Americans--1770

- Boston (Mass.)--1770

Headings

Engravings--1770.

Genre

Engravings--1770

Notes

- Engrav'd Printed & Sold by Paul Revere Boston.

- The print was copied by Revere from a design by Henry Pelham for an engraving eventually published under the title "The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre," of which only two impressions could be located by Brigham. Revere's print appeared on or about March 28, 1770.

- Title appears as it is written on the item.

- Brigham, p. 41-57.

- Cresswell, no. 246.

- Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1770-1.

- Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress . . . Washington : Library of Congress, 1975, no. 56.

- Exhibited in: Creating the United States, Library of Congress, 2008.

- Exhibited: "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 : A Long Struggle for Freedom" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 2014 - June 2015.

Medium

1 print : engraving with watercolor, on laid paper ; 25.8 x 33.4 cm. (plate)

Call Number/Physical Location

FP - XVIII - R452, no. 1 (A size) [P&P]

Repository

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/p.print

Digital Id

ppmsca 01657 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.01657

cph 3a35950 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a35950

cph 3f04913 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f04913

cph 3b51693 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b51693

cph 3g04600 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04600

Library of Congress Control Number

2008661777

Reproduction Number

LC-DIG-ppmsca-01657 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-35522 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZC2-4913 (color film copy slide) LC-USZC4-110 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZC4-4600 (color film copy transparency)

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1 print : engraving with watercolor, on laid paper ; 25.8 x 33.4 cm. (plate) | A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770. On the right a group of seven uniformed soldiers, on the signal of an officer, fire into a crowd of civilians at left. Three of the latter lie bleeding on the ground. Two other casualties have been lifted by the crowd. In the foreground is a dog; in the background are a row of houses, the First Church, and the Town House. Behind the British troops is another row of buildings including the Royal Custom House, which bears the sign (perhaps a sardonic comment) "Butcher's Hall." Beneath the print are 18 lines of verse, which begin: "Unhappy Boston! see thy Sons deplore, Thy hallowed Walks besmeared with guiltless Gore." Also listed are the "unhappy Sufferers" Saml Gray, Saml Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Carr (killed) and it is noted that there were "Six wounded; two of them (Christr Monk & John Clark) Mortally."

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Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-01657 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-35522 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZC2-4913 (color film copy slide) LC-USZC4-110 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZC4-4600 (color film copy transparency)

Call Number: FP - XVIII - R452, no. 1 (A size) [P&P]

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The Incident on King Street commonly known as the Boston Massacre was a key moment in the development of the American Revolution. A number of people were killed in a street fight between British troops and American people.

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Historical Background:

In 1765, a secret society called the Sons of Liberty was formed opposing the implementation of the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765, which required American colonists to pay tax on printed materials.

Two years later, colonists were further outraged by the passage of the Townshend Acts. They were a series of laws that set new taxes on British imported goods such as tea, paper, glass, and paint. In addition, it also aimed to raise British revenue to compensate the cost of war. The Acts included the Revenue Act, Indemnity Act, Commissioners of Customs Act, Vice-Admiralty Customs Act, and the New York Restraining Act. Colonists believed that taxes passed by the Parliament should not be imposed on them since they did not elect their own representatives. The motto "No to taxation without representation" emerged as their battle cry.

Since then mobs and riots emerged. Under the request of Governor Francis Bernard, British troops were sent to Boston to protect colonial officials in 1768.

Paul Revere was one of the founding members of the Sons of Liberty. He was known for his midnight ride on the eve of the American Revolution.

In order to enforce their protest, colonists led by the Sons of Liberty boycott British goods affected by the Townshend Acts.

On March 4, 1770, a day before the incident, numbers of Boston residents had an encounter with British soldiers at John Gray's Ropewalk in Fort Hill district. In particular, Private Matthew Kilroy argued with Samuel Gray.

The Night at King Street

On March 5, 1770, the Twenty-Ninth Regiment led by Captain Thomas Preston met a large taunting crowd of American civilians in front of the Customs House on King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. There were around 20,000 Bostonians and 4,000 British soldiers known as the Redcoats. The factions were led by Thomas Hutchinson, Royal Governor, and Samuel Adams, a patriot.

During the incident, British soldiers who were stationed in Boston opened fire and killed five men and injured six others after some local Boston people had been shouting and threatening them. The British soldiers fired their guns into the crowd and instantly killed three men. The other two men later died of their wounds.

Over 50 men were threatening the soldiers and throwing objects at them before the shots were fired. Many local Bostonians did not agree with the British army being in their city.

The five men who died in the incident were Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr. Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave, was thought to be the first American casualty of the American Revolution.

The British called the Boston Massacre, the Incident on King Street as the word 'massacre' is usually used to describe an event where hundreds of people are killed.

The Bloody Massacre in King Street is a famous, historic engraving by Paul Revere that shows British soldiers firing into an American crowd. This picture of the incident was inaccurate but represents how American people saw the situation.

The Aftermath:

Thousands of Boston residents attended the funeral of the victims as they walked towards the Liberty Tree. Samuel Adams chaired the committee that investigated the incident on the side of the colonists. The town meeting was held at the Faneuil Hall where they insisted that British troops leave the town. It was Samuel Adams who coined the term "Boston Massacre." On the other hand, Governor Hutchinson conducted their own investigation and sent the findings to London.

On November 27, 1770, Captain Preston and eight of his men were brought to trial. In defense of the soldiers were Josiah Quincy Jr. and John Adams, who became the second President of the United States. While the prosecutors were Robert Treat Paine and Samuel Quincy.

All eight soldiers involved in the incident were arrested. Six of them were released and two were charged with manslaughter. Their punishment was 'branding of the thumb'.

The soldiers were Corporal William Wemms, Private Hugh Montgomery, Private James Hartigan, Private William McCauley, Private Hugh White, Private Matthew Kilroy, Private William Warren, and Private John Carroll.

On December 2, 1770, Capt. Preston returned to England and paid £200 for the chaos he caused. Privates Kilroy and Montgomery, who were charged with manslaughter were granted the benefit of clergy and avoided the death sentence.

The incident was used by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere to stir the patriots across the thirteen colonies.

By 1773, the Tea Act was passed and after a year, the Boston Tea Party took place.

The event served as one of the contributing causes of the American Revolution that happened in 1775.

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The Boston Massacre was one of the events that led to the American Revolution. In 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts, a group of British soldiers shot their muskets into a crowd. Five colonists were killed.

The massacre happened at a time of tension between the American colonies and Great Britain. In 1767 the British Parliament passed the Townshend Acts. These acts placed taxes on goods such as tea, paper, and glass. The taxes angered many colonists. They felt that the Townshend Acts were unfair because the colonies were not represented in Parliament.

British soldiers arrived in Boston in 1768 to keep order. On the night of March 5, 1770, a group of British soldiers were trying to quiet an angry mob. Colonists were shouting and throwing things at the soldiers. Captain Thomas Preston, the leader of the soldiers, did not order his men to shoot. But in the confusion the soldiers began firing into the crowd. One of the five men killed was a former slave named Crispus Attucks. He is remembered as one of the first people to die for American independence.

Only two of the British soldiers were found guilty of the killings, and they were not punished harshly. The massacre caused many colonists to speak out against rule by Britain.

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