A Fair Account of the Late Unhappy Disturbance at Boston in New England; Extracted from the Depositions That Have Been Made Concerning It by Persons of All Parties. With an Appendix, Containing Some Affidavits and Other Evidences Relating to This...
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1770 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This pamphlet presents 31 depositions from soldiers and witnesses of the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770, with the intent of exonerating the British soldiers involved and advancing the loyalist cause — and was notably the first account of the event to reach King George III.
The pamphlet stands in direct contrast to the patriots' competing account, A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, and together the two works represent, as historian Eric Hinderaker described them, “a war of words” — each side racing to define blame for an event whose full truth remains elusive to this day.
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