This was unfortunately interrupted by the Stamp-Act: but it was in some measure restored by the Repeal of it. IT may be a proper introduction to this nar|rative, briefly to represent the state of things for some time previous to the said massacre:Īnd this seems necessary in order to the forming a just idea of the causes of it.Īt the end of the late war, in which this Province bore so distinguished a part, a happy union subsisted between Great-Britain and the Colonies.
Page A short Narrative of the horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIX th Re|giment which with the XIV th Regi|ment were then quartered there: with some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe.
