![]() ![]() Some colonists were holding clubs and small knives. Looked bruised and one was heavily bleeding from a gaping wound on his head. Inįormation stood 13 British soldiers including Captain Preston who was, strangely, standing at the front of the soldiers with his sword unsheathed but lowered. About a dozen people were on the ground and another 150 people were panicking or attending to those who had been shot. When IĪrrived at King Street I could tell what happened. First only one, but then a small chorus of blasts filled the air. But the close I got, the more I saw people running away. I immediately assumed that it was a fire and, pale in hand, ran to where it appeared to be I was fetching water from the pump outside of my wife and my house when the bells went off. It is sad to see the fallen on the ground but their punishment was At this point 5 people have died and at least that many have been injured. The people of Boston were becoming restless, something wasĭear God, yesterday was a day of treachery. Several acts were put in place and the colonists were Parliament complete control of colonists. In 1766 Parliament repealed the Stamp Act. The colonists were taxed without a fair say in what was going on. With cries of “TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION” Place, put tax on almost everything on paper. The sugar act was put in place and taxed on sugar the colonists. While Samuel had been growing up, many in Boston were starting to resent the British rule. In 1769, after theĬouple had been together for 3 years, Samuel’s father died at the age of 64 from small pocks. He married Hanna Peterson, a New Yorker who moved to Boston at a young age. Samuel started his own business as a lawyer and bought his own townhouse in Boston. At the age of 19 Samuel went off to be an apprentice under a local lawyer. They lived a humble life, his father had fought in the French and Indian War and was a hardy During hisĬhildhood he only lived with his father and two brothers for his mother had died during pregnancy. Samuel Davenport grew up on the south east side of Boston on the waterfront. ![]()
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