Boston Massacre
This essay is a short look at an event in American History that at times as been to say the least maybe a bit over blown. What would later be called The Boston Massacre, wasn't your conventional massacre in that the body count was not in excessive amounts with the streets coated in the blood of the innocent. The event itself was a tragedy that people died at all in what would seem to be a night of escalating violence, but in all the death toll was no more than four, with less than twenty wounded. To borrow a quote from an old teacher, "The Boston Massacre was an massacre in that it severed the Colonist last bit of toleration it had for Great Britain." This relatively short essay is going to show in part some of the events that lead up to and occurred during The Boston Massacre then finish with how the Colonist like Paul Revere and John Hancock would use the events to ignite the beginnings of the American Revolution.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 demonstrations d
ing the young Seider who would die that evening. uring the 1770's were common often protesting things like the Townshend Act. Some protests and were organized behind men like Samuel Adams and other great men of Boston. Regrettably the one at the Richardson's house was highly unorganized and the crowd grew out of control and started breaking windows. During the commotion a one stone is thrown and hits Richardson's wife. Richardson then grabs an unloaded musket and shoved it through one of the broken windows and proceeds to threaten the angry mob. Seeing the musket just seemed to create more animosity and the crowd knocked down the front door of the Richardson's house. Richardson then loaded his musket and fired into the mob fatally wound! 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. Later just four days after the young boy's funeral, a British soldier named Thomas Walker of the 29
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