crispus attucks was the first person to be killed in the boston massacre.
crispus attucks was the first person to be killed in the boston massacre.
who was the first person to be killed in the boston massacre?
crispus attucks
crispus attucks (1723 – march 5, 1770) was an american stevedore of african and native american descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the boston massacre and thus the first american killed in the american revolution. historians disagree on whether he was a free man or an escaped slave, but most agree that he was of wampanoag and african descent. two major sources of eyewitness testimony about the boston massacre published in 1770 did not refer to him as "black" nor as a "negro"; it appears that bostonians viewed him as being of mixed ethnicity. according to a contemporaneous account in the "pennsylvania gazette", he was a "mulattoe man, named crispus attucks, who was born in framingham, but lately belonged to new-providence, and was here in order to go for north carolina."
crispus attucks
hugh montgomery (british army soldier)









































private hugh montgomery was a soldier of the 29th regiment of foot who was present at the boston massacre. he killed one man and was found guilty of manslaughter.









































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on march 5, 1770, seven british soldiers, including montgomery, were dispatched to king street in boston, massachusetts to relieve private hugh white. montgomery was the first british soldier to fire in what was subsequently became known as the boston massacre.
hugh montgomery (british army soldier)