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Christopher Seider (or Snider) (1758 – February 22, 1770) was a boy who is considered to be the first American killed in the American Revolution. He was 11 years old when he was shot and killed by customs officer Ebenezer Richardson in Boston on February 22, 1770.
The shot injured teenager Samuel Gore, but it killed 11-year-old Christopher Seider, the blast striking him in the chest. The news raced through the city, with newspapers halting their presses to include accounts of the shooting.
Christopher Seider. His young life is cut short by the political turmoil of Revolutionary Boston. Christopher Seider’s tragic death is sometimes called the first bloodshed of the American Revolution.
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Feb 8, 2020 · The Life and Death of Christopher Seider. The younger boy hit by “Swan shot” from Ebenezer Richardson ’s musket on 22 Feb 1770 was named Christopher Seider (although that last name also showed up as Snider and in other forms). Christopher’s story starts with an effort to settle Maine.
Pelted by stones, Richardson fled into his home, and when the crowd attempted to follow, Richardson fired a gun into the midst of his assailants, killing ten-and-a-half-year-old Christopher Seider. At Seider’s funeral, the procession extended from the Town House to the Liberty Tree, reportedly one of the largest ever seen in America.
In late February 1770, a young Boston boy named Christopher Seider (or Snider) was shot and killed by Ebenezer Richardson, a Boston Loyalist. Seider was one a gang of youths who had gathered outside Richardson’s house to hurl abuse and pelt it with stones and other objects.
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Feb 23, 2017 · Christopher Seider, the son of poor German immigrants, was 11 years of age on the day a customs informant shot and killed him during a non-importation riot. He wandered by Ebenezer Richardson’s home in the North End as a radical mob began pelting Richardson’s home with rocks and excrement.
