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The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, [1] was a confrontation, on March 5, 1770, during the American Revolution in Boston in what was then colonial-era Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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Not much is known about Garrick's early childhood, but he was 13 years old when the Boston Massacre took place. Thirteen was a common age for boys to become apprentices in the 18th century, and Garrick was an apprentice at the time of the Massacre. [1] Around 1770, he was employed by John Piemont, a wigmaker and later tavern-keeper. [4]
Buried in Dana family plot in Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Ma. Edmund Trowbridge (1709 – April 2, 1793) was an American judge and lawyer. He is best known for being an associate justice for the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the highest court in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, during the Boston Massacre.
1888, a monument honoring Attucks and the other victims of the Boston Massacre was erected on Boston Common. It is over 25 feet high and about 10 feet wide. The "bas-relief" (raised portion on the face of the main part of the monument) portrays the Boston Massacre, with Attucks lying in the foreground. Under the scene is the date, March 5, 1770.
Hiller B. Zobel is a retired Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts and author or coauthor of several books on various legal topics, including the Boston Massacre and John Adams. He graduated from Harvard College in 1953 and received his law degree in 1959 from Harvard. He was recalled from retirement in 2006 to serve on the ...
Matthew Kilroy (fl. 1770) was an Irish soldier who served in the 29th Regiment of Foot and was present at the Boston Massacre, for which he was found guilty of the manslaughter of one of the five fatalities, Samuel Gray.
1768 – Massacre of St George's Fields (London, England) 1769 – Spitalfield Riots (Spitalfields, London, England) 1770 – Boston Massacre (Boston, British America) 1771 – Plague Riot (Moscow, Russia) 1772 – Pine Tree Riot (Weare, New Hampshire, British America) 1773 – Boston Tea Party Boston, British America; 1775 – Flour War (France)