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422 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

Hr. Samuel Quincy. May it please your Honors and you
gentlemen of the jury: The prisoners at the bar, are that
party of soldiers belonging to his Majesty’s 29th regiment,
who in the evening of the 5th of March last, were induced
from some cause or other to fire on the inhabitants of this
town in King street. They are charged in five distinct in-
dictments, with the wilful premeditated murder of five dif-
ferent persons mentioned in the respective bills; to each of
these indictments they have severally pleaded, not guilty;
and by that plea have thrown upon the erown the burden of
proving the fact alleged against them. It is my province
therefore to give you evidence in support of this charge, and

TPamm, Roper Tamar. (1731-1814.) Born Boston; graduated
Harvard, 1749; began practice of Jaw at Taunton, 1759; delegate
to Congress, 1774, and one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence; member Massachusetts Constitutional Convention;
Attorney General of Massachusetts; Judge Supreme Court, 1790-
1803.

* Quincy, Sawcen. Was an elder brother of Josiah Quincy, Jr,
and the last Solicitor General of the Province of Massachusetts
before the evolution. He became a Royalist, it is said, through
jealousy of his brother, who rose to higher distinction than himsel?,
At the Revolution he left the country and went to Antigua, where
he was appointed King’s Attorney. He died there in 1789.

® Apawa, JonN. (1735-1826.) Born Braintree, Mass,; graduated
Harvard, 1755; admitted to Bar, 1758, and practiced at Braintree
‘until he removed to Boston in 1765; member Provincial Congress,
1765; member of Constitutional Congress and one of the signers
of the Deelaration of Independence; Chief Justice of Massachn-
setta, 1775; Commissioner to France, 1777; Minister to Franee,
1785; Vice-President of the United States, and President, 1787-
1801; died at Braintree.

20 Quincy, JosisH, Jn. (1744-1775.) Born in Boston, “the most
eminent of a well-known family, whose founder emigrated to New.
England in 1633, At the time of his death, at the age of thirty-one,
he had won distinction as a lawyer, and his place was secured in
history ss the most eloquent, the most clear-sighted, and the most
devoted of the men who led the American Colonies in the measures
preliminary to the Revolution.” He died on shipboard, of con
sumption, in Gloucester harbor.

12 Browsrs, Sawpson Sauter. Graduated Cambridge, 1763;
ealled to Bar, 1773. He took the Royalist side and left the Province
at the beginning of the Revolntion and was in 1798 appointed Chief
Justice of Nova Scotia.