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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 43: (search)
orious smuggler. Boston Gazette, 19 Feb. 1770; 776, 2, 2. Theophilus Lillie, who had begun to sell contrary to the agreement, found a post planted before his door, with a hand pointed towards his house in derision. One of his neighbors, Richardson, an informer, asked a countryman to break the post down by driving the wheel of his cart against it. A crowd interposed; a number of boys chased Richardson to his own house and threw stones. Provoked but not endangered, he fired among them, anRichardson to his own house and threw stones. Provoked but not endangered, he fired among them, and killed one of eleven years old, the son of a poor German. At his Chap. XLIII.} 1770. Feb. funeral five hundred children walked in front of the bier; six of his school-fellows held the pall; and men of all ranks moved in procession from Liberty Tree to the Town House, and thence to the burying place. Soldiers and officers looked on, with wounded pride. Dalrymple was impatient to be set to work Compare Dalrymple to Gage. in Boston, or to be ordered elsewhere. Hutchinson—–, March, 1770