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    "title": "Boston Massacre trial notes",
    "description": "One portion of John Adams' notes from the trial of the eight British soldiers accused of murder for their role in the Boston Massacre (Rex v. Wemms, et al.). This fragment is comprised of twenty pages, thirteen of which contain writing, along with seven blank pages, and is part of a larger extant body of Adams' Boston Massacre trial notes. Those pages of notes not held by the BPL are held by the Massachusetts Historical Society.",
    "date": "[\"1770\"]",
    "year": 1770,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_000710-06_01_000728, 06_01_000761",
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        "Adams, John, 1735-1826",
        "Kidder, Frederic, 1804-1885"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
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        "Boston Massacre, 1770",
        "Trials (Murder)",
        "United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775",
        "United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783",
        "Wemms, William"
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        "Massachusetts",
        "North and Central America",
        "Suffolk (county)",
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        "Holograph.",
        "Title devised by cataloger.",
        "This manuscript has been filed under several call numbers, including: MS G.38.24 and MS Am. 229 (23). It is currently filed under MS Adams 307.",
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