lled and wounded,

Mr. Samuel Gray, ropemaker, killed.--A Mollatto man, named
Johnson, killed.--Mr. James Caldwell, mate of Capt. Morton's
vessel, killed.--Mr. Samuel Maverick, wounded, and since
dead.--A Lad named Christopher Monk, wounded.--A lad named
John Clark, wounded.--Mr. Edward Payne, Merchant, standing
at his entry-door, wounded in the arm.--Mr. John Greene,
taylor, wounded.--Mr. Patrick Cole, wounded.--David Parker,
wounded.

Early next morning Captain Preston was committed to gaol,
and same day 8 soldiers.

A meeting of the inhabitants was called at Fanueil-hall that
forenoon: and the Lieutenant-Governor and Council met at the
Council-chamber, where the Colonels Dalrymple and Carr were
desired to attend, when it was concluded upon, that both
regiments should go down to the barracks at Castle-William,
as soon as they were ready to receive them.

_We decline at present, giving a more particular account of
this unhappy affair, as we hear the trial of the unfortunate
prisoners is to come on next week._

This is all the "Boston Chronicle" has to say about that great
historical event of the fifth of March, an event which stirred the whole
country and filled the minds of the Colonists with a perfect hatred of
the British power in America,--"The Boston Massacre." The editor of the
paper was probably a Tory.

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The "Massachusetts Gazette," Feb. 3, 1774, says:--

We hear that the Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esq; is appointed to
deliver the ORATION in Commemoration of the Bloody Tragedy
on the 5th of March.

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The "Salem Gazette" has this item, March 7, 1782:--

Last Tuesday Mr. George R. Minot delivered an elegant and
spirited Oration, at the old brick meeting-house, in
commemoration of the horrid massacre perpetrated on the 5th
of March, 1770, by a banditti of the British tyrant's 29th
regiment.

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It may not be of any consequence to the public to know what kind of coat
Jonathan Williams wore in 1767, but it may be a matter of curiosity to
his descendants now living. We take the following advertisement from the
"Boston Gazette," Dec. 28, 1767:--

Whereas there has been taken out of the House of _Jonathan
Williams_ in Cornhill, two Great Coats, on the 23d Instant,
one of