top of page




This illustration which appears inside an article on the Boston Massacre in the left hand column in the Boston Gazette for March 12, 1770. The four coffins appear side by side horizontally. Each has a small line border. In the center of the four coffins is a skull and crossbones; on the one second from the left is a scythe and hourglass. Appearing in white at the top of the four coffins are initials “S.G.” [Samuel Gray] “S.M.” [Samuel Maverick] “J.C.” [James Caldwell] and “C.A.” [Crispus Attucks]



bottom of page