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WILLIAM WEMMS AND SEVEN OTHERS. 451

pay or blood shed this night*;
they turned and went towards
the sentinel, at the Custom
Honse; I then went up by tho
guard house, and when I had
passed it a little way, I saw the
soldiers who went down before
the Custom House returning
back, with 9 mob before them,
driving them up past the guard
house; the number of people be-
fore the soldiers were cixteen or
eighteen; some of them were
boys, but moat of them were men
from twenty to five-and-twenty.
Williom Davis, Am sergeant
major of the 14th regiment;
on Monday evening, Sth March,
about sight o'clock, was going
towards the North End in Fore
street, near Wentworth’s wharf,
and saw about two hundred peo-
ple in the street before me; I
atept aside; saw several
with clube, aud large sticks, and
some had guns; they came down
‘by twos and threes abreast; saw
no soldier in the street; heard
them saying, “damn the dogs,
knock them down, we will knock
down the firat officer or bloody
backed raseal we shall meet this
night”; some of them then said
‘would go to the southward,
and join some of their friends
there, and attack the damned
seoundrela, and drive them out
of town, for they had no busi-
ness here; apprehending dan-
ger in my regimentals, I went
into ashouse at the North End
and changed my dresa; on my
returm, coming near Dock square,
heard a great noise, a whistling
and rattling of wood; saw a
great number of people in the
Market, knocking against the
posts and tearing up the stalls,
saying, “damn the lobsters,
where are they now?” Heard sev-

eral voices, some said, “let us
‘dll that damned scoundrel of a
sentry, and then attack the main
guard”; some said, “let us go
to Smith’s barracks’; others
said, “let us go to the rope-
walke”; they divided; the larg-
est number went up Royal Ex-
change Jane, and another party
up Fiteh’s alley, and the rest
through the main street, up
Cornhill; I went inte King
streat; looking towards the Cus-
tom House, saw a number of
people seemingly in great com-
motion; uear the fish stall et
Oliver's dock met a great num-
ber of people eoming towards
King street, with clubs and large
stieks; it was past nine; one of
them was loading his piece by
Oliver's dock; he said he would
do for some of these scoundrels
that night; the people were
using threats against the soldiers
and commissioners, “damn the
scoundrels and villains of sol-
diers and commissioners, and
damn the villain that first sent
them to Boston; they aball not
be here two nights longer”; went
to my barracks; the roll had
been called, and there waa not a
man absent, except some officers
that quartered in the town, and
their servants; immediately af-
ter, I heard a gun fired in King
street, and afterwards two or
three more.

Nathaniel Russell, Am a chair-
maker; on the evening of fifth
March, between nine and ten
o’elock, being at my own house
and hearing the bells ring, ran
out to know where the fire was;
down to the Sonth meeting house
saw men and boys armed with
clubs, coming along; some were
damning the soldiers, that they
would destroy them, and sink

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