The Coffin of Patrick Carr

The Coffin of Patrick Carr

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Place Created: Boston, MA

Year Created: 1770

Publisher: The Boston Gazette

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Description: Print shows section of newspaper column with illustration of the coffin bearing skull and crossbones and the initials of Patrick Carr, who died from wounds received during the Boston Massacre.

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Last Wednesday Night died, Patrick Carr, an Inhabitant of this Town, of the Wound he received in King Street on the bloody and execrable Night of the 5th Instant -- 

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Citation: Illus. in: The Boston Gazette, and Country Journal, 1770 March 19.
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 654.

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