Attucks, Crispus, -1770
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Name (Latin)
Attucks, Crispus, -1770
Other forms of name
Small deer, -1770
nnea Attucks, Crispus, d. 1770
Attucks, Cris, -1770
Date of birth
1723
Date of death
1770-03-05
Place of birth
Mashpee (Mass.)
Place of death
Boston (Mass.)
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Sailors
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
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Sources of Information
- 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)
- Author's A memorial of Crispus Attucks, 1889.
- Crispus Attucks, 2003CIP 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)