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Boston Massacre Trials: 1770

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Adams, John. The Adams Papers: The Legal Papers of John Adams, 3 vols. Edited by L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965.

Calhoon, Robert McCluer. The Loyalists in Revolutionary, America, 1760—1781. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973

Fleming, Thomas J. "The Boston Massacre." American Heritage. (December 1969): 6-11, 102-111.

Hansen, Harry. The Boston Massacre: An Episode of Dissent and Violence. New York: Hastings House, 1970.

Kidder, Frederic. History of the Boston Massacre. Albany, N.Y.: Munsell, 1870

Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause, The American Revolution, 1763—1789. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Quincy, Josiah, Jr. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, between 1761 and 1772. Edited by Samuel M. Quincy. Boston: 1885.

Zobel, Hiller B. The Boston Massacre. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1970.

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