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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]
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.
On 5 March 1770, seven soldiers from the 29th Regiment of Foot, including Montgomery, were dispatched to King Street in Boston, Massachusetts, to relieve Private Hugh White. Montgomery was the first soldier to fire against a hostile crowd of colonists surrounding them in what subsequently became known as the Boston Massacre . [ 3 ]
Preston was a captain of the 29th Regiment of Foot, part of the British garrison in Boston under the overall command of Thomas Gage.He was present at the Boston Massacre, also known as the Incident on King Street, when on 5 March 1770 a group of soldiers from the 29th fired on colonists of the city, after an aggressive mob had confronted them and thrown snowballs, clubs, and rocks at them.
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. Above the bas-relief stands a female figure, Free America, holding the broken chain of oppression in her right hand. Beneath her right foot, she crushes ...
George Robert Twelves Hewes (August 25, 1742 – November 5, 1840) [2] was a participant in the political protests in Boston at the onset of the American Revolution, and one of the last survivors of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. Later he fought in the American Revolutionary War as a militiaman and privateer. Shortly before his ...
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. [1]
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