[217] Reprinted in London in three editions the same year. Brinley, i. no. 1,655, etc.; Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,719, etc.; Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 608.
[218] Not the historian, but his uncle. Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xi. 240.
[219] The letter of the Boston committee, covering the copy sent to the Massachusetts agent in London, is among the Lee Papers in the Univ. of Virginia. There is a fac-simile of its signatures in the Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 39. Some copies of the Narrative have a list of the persons in England to whom copies were sent.
The Letter from the Town of Boston to C. Lucas, Esq., one of the Representatives of the City of Dublin, in Parliament, inclosing a Short Narrative, etc., was printed in Dublin, 1770 (Cooke Catal., iii. no. 256; Sabin, x. no. 40,348). The other contemporary American accounts are in the Boston Gazette, March 12th (bordered with black lines); Jos. Belknap's in Belknap Papers (MS., i. 69); letter of William Palfrey to John Wilkes, and one of Governor Hutchinson in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., vol. vi. 480 (March, 1863).
The accounts in Gordon (vol. i.) and Hutchinson (vol. iii. 270) are also those of contemporaries. Cf. documents in Hist. Mag., June, 1861, and in Niles's Principles and Acts of the Rev. Dickinson, on March 31st wrote of it to Arthur Lee, from Philadelphia. Lee's Life of A. Lee, ii. 299.
Crispus Attucks, one of the slain, usually called a mulatto, is held by J. B. Fisher, in the Amer. Hist. Record (i. 531), to have been a half-breed Indian. Cf. Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 32; George Livermore's Historical Research.
[220] Separately, Boston, 1770 (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,721; Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 608).
[221] There are other later accounts in J. S. Loring's Hundred Boston Orators; Frothingham's "Sam. Adams's Regiments" (Atlantic Monthly, June and Aug., 1862, and Nov., 1863), which is epitomized in his Life of Warren (ch. 6); Wells's Samuel Adams; Tudor's Otis; Bancroft's United States (orig. ed., vi. ch. 43, with references); histories of Boston by Snow and Drake, and the Mem. History of Boston, iii. 38, 135; Barry's Mass., ii. 409; Gay's Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. ch. 14.
[222] John Adams's Works, x. 201. The brief used by John Adams is in the Boston Public Library, and a fac-simile of the opening paragraph is in the Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 38. It is printed by Kidder (p. 10). A portrait of Lynde, the presiding judge, is given in the Memorial Hist. of Boston (ii. 558), and in the Diaries of Benj. Lynde and Benj. Lynde, Jr. (Bost., privately printed, 1880), where will be found all that remains of his charge. Sam. Adams's "Vindex" criticised the arguments for the defence in the Mass. Gazette. Cf. Buckingham's Reminiscences, i. 168.
[223] He was a Scotch bookbinder in Boston. Thomas's Hist. of Printing (1874), ii. 228.