| LC control no. | n 82017659 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Attucks, Crispus, -1770 |
| Variant(s) | Attucks, Cris, -1770 Attucks, Crispus, d. 1770 Small deer, -1770 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Massachusetts |
| Birth date | 1723~ |
| Death date | 1770-03-05 |
| Place of birth | Mashpee (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Boston (Mass.) |
| Profession or occupation | Sailors |
| Found in | Author's A memorial of Crispus Attucks, 1889. Crispus Attucks, 2003 CIP galley (b. 1723 into slavery in Framingham, Mass.; often called Cris; became a runaway slave and a sailor; d. Mar. 5, 1770 in the Boston Massacre) African American National Biography, accessed December 2, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Attucks, Crispus; sailor, patriot (American Revolution); born c. 1723 in Mashpee, Near Framingham, Massachusetts, United States; descendant of Natick Indians who converted to Christianity in the seventeenth century; may have been a slave, according to The Boston Gazette of 2 October 1750 printed notice; became a crewman on a Nantucket whaler which was docked at the time of the Massacre in Boston harbor; he and others had earlier threatened British soldiers at Murray's barracks; killed by a Brutish soldier who was acquited by Suffolk Superior Court in Boston (1770); the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts erected on Boston Common a memorial to Attucks and the other massacre victims (1888); died 05 March 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) The encyclopedia of native American biography, ©1997 (Attucks, Crispus (Small deer); Massachuset; c. 1725-1770; Son of an African American father and a Massachuset Indian mother) |
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