Like many March evenings in New England, it was clear but cold and crisp that night of the 5th. About a foot of snow lay on the ground. Where it had melted during the day, ice had formed, clinging stubbornly to the shaded and protected cobblestones, the last evidence of a hard winter. Private Hugh Whites stood guard duty in the sentry box beside the Customs House when a young apprentice began baiting him. The boy, a young man named Edward Garrick, declared that White's company commander had not paid his master for a wig a

Robert Leckie. George Washington's War (New York, NY.: Harper Perenial, 1992) 56.

Robert Leckie. George Washington's War 57.

Thomas Fleming. Liberty (New York, NY.: Penguin Group, 1997) 71.

Henry Steele Commanger. The Spirit of Seventy-Six (New York, NY.: Da Capo Press, 1975) 36.

bers armed with palings torn from picket fences or clubs that once were legs of produce stalls. The commotion grew as the unruly crowd gathered around White. The sentry found himself confronted by an angry, dangerous mod. Now thoroughly terrified, Private White backed up to the Customs House steps, pointing his glittering bayonet at the crowd while loading his musket. Burly Henry Knox, a Boston Bookseller, cried out in warning that if he fired, he would most surly perish. More and more angry Bostonians joined the throng. Several snowballs flew o

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