( conjectural )
Oct. 1770 to Dec. 1770
Original paper slip text:[Oct.–Dec. 1770]
Notes on crown witnesses' testimony; on argument for the crown; and on his own argument in defense of the soldiers indicted for the Boston Massacre
13 p. (incomplete and out of order); 7 additional blank pages at end of MS not filmed. All leaves are now detached, arbitrarily numbered, and silked.
JA—Legal Papers
- In BPL, G.38.24
- Note: Prints of p. 1–13 are now filed in
- REFERENCE FILE, articulated with prints of other JA notes on this trial (MHi:3482a).
- This is designated as Adams Massacre Minutes, MB MS, in JA's Legal Papers.
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Printed :Printed: Kidder, Boston Massacre, p. 10–18
more accurately in BPL Bull., 5 (1900):263–270, and repr. in Hist. MSS in BPL, No. 2 (1902): 13–20.;
more accurately in BPL Bull., 5 (1900):263–270, and repr. in Hist. MSS in BPL, No. 2 (1902): 13–20.;
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