A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770
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67.) George Costar, of the Bay of Bulls, in the island of Newfound- APPENDIX. 83 land, mariner, of lawful age, testifieth and saith, that being in Bos- ton, about nine of the clock, in the evening of the 5th day of March current, he, the deponent was standing in King street, near the mid- dle of said street, and while there standing, among a large number of other people, in about five or sis minutes after he stopped, he heard the word of command given to the soldiers, " Fire," upon which one gu...n was fired, which did no execution, as the deponent observed. About half a minute after, two guns, one of which killed one Samuel Gray, a ropemaker, the other, a mulatto man, between which two men the deponent stood ; after this the deponent heard the dischai-ge of four or five guns more, by the soldiers ; immediately after which the deponent heard the discharge of two guns or pistols from an open window of the middle story of the Custom-house, near to the place where the sentry box was placed, and being but a small distance from the window, he heard the people from within speak and laugh, and soon after he saw the casement lowered down ; after which the deponent assisted others in carrying off one of the corpses.
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