The bloody massacre perpetrated in King-Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt. : the unhappy sufferers were Mess.s Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, Jams. Caldwell, Crispus Attucks & Patk. Carr killed. Six wounded; two of them (Christe. Monk & John Clark) mortally

Treasures of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library

Boston

Engrav'd, printed & sold by Paul Revere

1770

Hand-colored engraving. Paul Revere issued this famous print less than a month after the Boston Massacre, and it became an important piece of visual propaganda for colonial Americans. The New-York Historical Society's copy is one of the rare copies that show Crispus Attucks as a Black man. He was an American stevedore of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution.

Print Room – PR 058
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Boston Massacre, 1770--Pictorial works
Dead--Pictorial works

Gray, Samuel, -1770
Attucks, Crispus, -1770
Maverick, Samuel, 1753?-1770
Caldwell, James, -1770
Carr, Patrick, -1770
Monk, Christopher
Clark, John

Old State House (Boston, Mass.)--Pictorial works

Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

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