(AMERICAN REVOLUTION PRELUDE) An issue of the Essex Gazette

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) An issue of the Essex Gazette with coverage of the trial of Captain Preston for the Boston Massacre. 4 pages, 16 x 10 inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, moderate foxing. Salem, MA, 30 October 1770

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Eight months after the Boston Massacre, this issue reports on page 3: "At the Supreme Court held here, on Wednesday began the Trial of Capt. Thomas Preston, of the 29th Regiment, who was indicted by the Grand Jury in several Indictments for the Murder of Mr. Gray, Maverick, and others on the 5th of March last. . . . The jury went out about five o'clock, and it is said agreed by eight o'clock. . . . They brought in their verdict 'Not Guilty'; and Capt. Preston was dismissed."