One no doubt cold February morning of 1770, a group of several hundred adults and youths, including an eleven-year old Christopher Seider surrounded the house of Ebenezer Richardson. Richardson was a known Tory informer for the British customs commissioners. Unfortunately mob demonstrat

The next day Monday March 5, 1770 one Private Hugh White of the 29th Regiment was on guard duty at a Guard Post on King Street which was close to the Customhouse. The Job of the Customhouse was basically the stronghold of the King of Britains taxes and gold in Boston which would make this post what most people would call “high risk”. Captain Goldfinch, an officer in the 29th, was being tormented by a number of local citizens for not paying his bills to local merchants. Private White who was still physically and mentally recovering from the skirmish the previous night was not going allow a bunch of rebel Colonists torment Captain Goldfinch. The Private strikes a young man by the name of Edward Garrick with the butt end of his musket. Quickly townspeople started to gather and challenge both White and Goldfinch to fight. As the crowd began to get larger, the British soldiers realized that the situation was about to explode.

Captain Thomas Preston’s account of the massacre is the only official report on the events of the fifth of March 1770. Captain Preston, Officer of the Guard, heard that a crowd had formed in front of the Customhouse and that the guards were hollering for additional guards to the front of the Customhouse. Preston rushed to the Customhouse and formed his men in formation to prevent any harm to the guards and or destruction to the guard post. Preston and his guards ready their bayonets and began to poke and prod the mob away from the post. The whole event continues to escalate as both sides yell back and forth all the while Preston fights to maintain control of both the mob and his troops. The whole thing blew up in their faces when a British Soldier is injured and fires into the crowd. What is not know at least to me is how the Soldier i

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