Hiller B. Zobel, The Boston Massacre (New York: W. W. Norton, 1970). Zobel, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge, wrote the definitive account of the Boston Massacre.

L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel, Legal Papers of John Adams, vol. 3, Cases 63 & 64: The Boston Massacre Trials (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1965). In addition to being the defense counsel, John Adams was an inveterate note taker and recorder. His Legal Papers contain the most comprehensive account of the trial of Rex v. Wemms—or indeed, one of the most comprehensive accounts of any trial before the era of stenography.