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| | From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Boston Massacre |
 | | It may be a proper introduction to this narrative, briefly to represent the state of things for some time previous to the said Massacre; and this seems necessary in order to the forming a just idea of the causes of it. |
 | | But it does not appear that, in fixing the place of their residence, the convenience of the whole was at all consulted, for Boston, being very far from the centre of the colonies, could not be the place most convenient for the whole. |
 | | It was not expected, however, that such an outrage and massacre, as happened here on the evening of the fifth instant, would have been perpetrated. |
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