(AMERICAN REVOLUTION PRELUDE) Issue of the Boston Evening P

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Issue of the Boston Evening-Post discussing the Boston massacre. 6 pages, 16 x 10½ inches, on 2 sheets including broadsheet Supplement of the same date tipped in lightly; stitch holes, uncut; minor wear and foxing. Boston, 26 November 1770

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The first article is a letter demanding "justice, bare justice only, for oppressed, slandered America" regarding "the case of Capt. Preston" and "the late murders by the soldiery at Boston." The Boston Massacre took place the previous 5 March; Captain Preston was acquitted in court in October, and the trials of his eight soldiers began on 27 November, the day after this newspaper was issued.

Also features an advertisement for the shop of Samuel Allyne Otis, who would later serve as the first secretary of the United States Senate.