Christopher Seider
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Christopher Seider, baptized in Braintree, Massachusetts in March 1759 [1] was an eleven year old boy [2] killed in Boston on February 22, 1770. He was part of a mob demonstrating at the house of Ebenezer Richardson (located in the present day North End, Boston), a known British loyalist and informer. A stone thrown by the crowd hit Richardson's wife. At this point Richardson threatened the crowd with an unloaded musket. This further provoked the mob and they broke down the front door of his house. Richardson loaded and fired into the mob wounding Seider who died that evening. This is one of the seminal events leading to the Boston Massacre two weeks later and ultimately to the American Revolution. Seider has been called by some historians the first victim of the American Revolution.
[edit] References
- Zobel, Hiller B., "The Boston Massacre", (1970, reissue 1996) W. W. Norton and Co., pp 164-179, ISBN 0-393-31483-9.
