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Apr 4, 2024 · At Richardson's home the crowd grew. Richardson attempted to disperse the crowd by threatening to fire upon them with his rifle. The crowd did not retreat, and Richardson fired birdshot into the crowd, hitting Samuel Gore and Christopher Seider. Seider, an eleven-year-old boy, died from his wounds.
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Boston merchants had agreed to boycott British goods to protest the tax. But throughout the colony, people wondered whether they’d continue to honor non-importation agreements. Boston had played a leading role in implementing the non-importation strategy and convincing other colonies to join in. But the cost took its toll. Frustrated by several yea...
“A number of boys had been diverting themselves with the exhibition of a piece of pageantry near the house of Theophilus Lillie,” the Boston-Gazette and Country Journal reported. They placed a sign, ‘IMPORTER,’ in front of his home. Soon their protest turned explosive. Ebenezer Richardson, a British customs officer, stepped in and tried to stop the...
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. Later they would report more than 1,000 people attended his funeral procession days later, which started at Boston’s Lib...
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.
Feb 23, 2021 · Join Bob Allison (Suffolk University), Jonathan Lane (Revolution 250) in conversation with J.L. Bell (Boston 1775) as we discuss the life and death of Christopher Seider, an 11 year old killed...
The unfortunate Christopher Seider was the recipient of Richardson’s anger, and the boy was shot in the chest. He was rushed away, and laid suffering for several hours before succumbing to his wounds about 9pm on Feb 22nd.
On February 22, 1770, an 11-year-old boy, Christopher Seider, was killed when a customs office informant fired into an angry mob.
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Ebenezer Richardson: the reviled British customs inspector who shot and killed Christopher Seider during a confrontation with boys picketing the shop of a Boston merchant who refused to sign the city’s non-importation agreement. corse: corpse. ___THE BOSTON MASSACRE___. (KING STREET RIOT) BOSTON, 5 MARCH 1770.
