The Account of The Boston Massacre

As reported in The Boston Gazette and Country Journal

If you were living in Boston at the time, this is what you would have read in the Boston Gazette and Country Journal in its edition of Monday, March 12, 1770. The actual account as reported and published in the pages of that newspaper follows.

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