Orations delivered at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, to commemorate the evening of the fifth of March, 1770 : when a number of citizens were killed by a party of British troops, quartered among them, in a time of peace.
| Other author | Edes, Peter, 1756-1840, compiler. |
| Other author | Allen, James, 1739-1808. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boston : Printed by Peter Edes, in State-Street, [1785] |
| Description | 200 pages ; 17 cm (12mo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18997. ^A478749 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18899. ^A478749 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18955. ^A478749 |
| General note | Contains orations delivered from 1771 through 1783. |
| General note | Half-title: Boston orations. |
| General note | Preface signed: Peter Edes. Boston. January, 1785. |
| General note | Two states noted. The first is complete in 182, [2] p.; the second has additional material on p. [185]-200. |
| General note | Benjamin Church's oration is recorded separately by Evans (entry 18955). |
| General note | "An oration, delivered at the King's-Chapel in Boston, April 8, 1776, on the re-interment of the remains of the late most worshipful Grand-Master Joseph Warren ... By Perez Morton ..."--p. [185]-193, with separate title page. |
| General note | "A poem. The following masterly piece of original compostion is from the pen of James Allen, of Boston ..."--p. 195-200 (Evans 18899). |
| References | Evans 18997 |
| References | Evans 18899 |
| References | Evans 18955 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18997). |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18899). |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18955). |
| Genre/form | Funeral addresses 1776. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1785. |