A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770 by soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment, which with the XIVth Regiment were then quartered there : with some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophe
At a town meeting March 12, 1770, James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren and Samuel Pemberton were appointed a committee to prepare a particular account of the massacre. The "Short narrative" was prepared, accepted at a town meeting held March 19, and ordered immediately printed.