| Citation |
VGW(RI.770.013
5 Apr 1770:21, 22, 31, 32, 41, 42 (204)
Boston, March 8. One day last week a soldier who has long
passed for the bully of the 29th regiment, bought two
baskets of charcoal from a Stoughton man, and in payment
offered him a pistereen in lieu of a shilling sterling,
which the man refused, and insisted on his money or the
return of the coal . . . [report of disturbances between
soldiers and citizens leading the "Boston massacre"; In
second column:] . . . No less audacious was the behaviour
of a tall Negro drummer, to whom Justice Gill particularly
spoke, ordering him home, but he intent on wounding, or
probably killing the inhabitants, headed the party sword in
hand . . . [2 columns] bells were set a ringing, and great
numbers soon assembled at the place where this tragical
scene had been acted . . . [2 columns, procession and burial
of victims]
On this occasion most of the shops in town were shut, all
the bells were ordered to toll a solemn peal, as were also
those in the neighbouring towns of Charlestown, Roxbury, &c.
. .
|