record number: 010624

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Dates:

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Oct. 1770 to Dec. 1770

Original paper slip text:[Oct.–Dec. 1770]

Author:

John Adams

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Title:

Notes on crown witnesses' testimony; on

Samuel Quincy

Original paper slip text:Samuel Quincy's

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argument for the crown; and on his own argument in defense of the soldiers indicted for the Boston Massacre

Length:

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.

Document Type:

JA—Legal Papers

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Notes:

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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Boston Public Library

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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.;

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