![]() ![]() By the said act the said Commissioners were It was again in|terrupted by other acts of parliament for taxing America and by the appointment of aBoard of Commissioners, in pursuance of an act, which by the face of it was made for the relief and encouragement of commerce, but which in it's operation, it was apprehended, would have, and it has in fact had, a contrary effect. This was unfortunately interrupted by the Stamp-Act: but it was in some measure restored by the Repeal of it. IT may be a proper introduction to this nar|rative, briefly to represent the state of things for some time previous to the said massacre:Īnd this seems necessary in order to the forming a just idea of the causes of it.Īt the end of the late war, in which this Province bore so distinguished a part, a happy union subsisted between Great-Britain and the Colonies. Page A short Narrative of the horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIX th Re|giment which with the XIV th Regi|ment were then quartered there: with some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. ![]()
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