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| Milliner's Letters Reveal New Information on Christopher
Seider's Death By Adriana C. |
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Today is Feb. 21, 1770
I was in my shop finishing up a dress for Mrs. Richardson but
there was nary enough items that I needed so I had to go out to get
more. When I got to the merchant's shop I saw the things I
needed,
but they cost more than what it used to be. So I asked the
woman that owns the shop, “Pray, tell me that this is a joke?
That these things really aren’t going to be taxed, pray tell me?”
She told me that the British were taxing everything that has printing
on
it.
I found out that we have to pay the taxes to support the
government. The Crown is going to make us pay more than what we
are paying already. That is why people aren’t coming to my
shop anymore.
So now there are people outside my shop protesting because they don’t
want to pay taxes for tea and everything that has printing on it.
They are also upset because the Lobsterbacks are filling the streets of
Boston. When the people found out about this tax they started
protesting in front of my shop. All day they were saying,
“NO more Taxes, NO more Taxes!”
They might get tired over a day or two, but I wouldn’t count on
it. I will pray every night to ask God to make these people go
away so my customers can come in and get their new clothes.
But... none of my customers came to pick up their clothes today because
all of these people weren’t letting them in. There are clothes in
the window to be bought by someone. If they come by tomorrow then they
can purchase them. I will write later.
Yours always,
Lucy
Today is Feb. 22, 1770.
I was still making Richardson's wife’s dress. And the mob of
people, about one hundred, are still outside protesting against
taxes. A lot of the people are throwing rocks and
cobblestones at Richardson’s house and his wife got hit in the head,
but she is not dead or hurt that bad.
So when his wife got hit he got mad and went to his room and got his
musket. And he put the pellets in it and shot it. When he did
that he shot into the crowd. A boy named Christopher Seider got
shot two times, once in the head and once in the chest.
I feel bad for him because he wasn’t the one that Ebenezer Richardson
was going to kill, but I didn’t think that he was going to kill
anyone. I was thinking that he was going to shoot the gun out in the
air so they will get scared and leave him alone. Then he could
get back to his real and calm life. But... that didn’t happen.
Christopher Seider was killed and now you cannot do anything about it.
Later today Richardson was sent to jail for the murder of Christopher
Seider.
Yours always,
lucy
Sept. 1770
Today is the day I will be finishing the dress for Mrs. Richardson. She
might use that dress for the court day for Ebenerzer Richardson.
Ebenerzer’s wife is mad because she doesn’t think that he killed
Christopher Seider, so now she is going to try and get him out of jail
and tell the jury that is wasn’t him. Then they found out that she was
lying because there was one witness that saw everything and the witness
was a person that was in his shop making a cake for an order. He saw
everything because he was across the street from where Richardson
lives.
The witness was scared because when Richardson gets out of jail he just
might kill him.
I was looking out my window and I saw hundreds and hundreds of people
at Christopher Seider’s funeral. I was so sad because the family of
Christopher has to go through so much now that they lost
their son. If that was my son I would be so mad. The mother
of Christopher Seider was so sad that I think she fell down
crying. When she found about her son. So she was in shock.
Yours always,
lucy
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1- Hoose, Philip. We
Where There Too.
Canada: 2001 24/6/06
2- Allison, J. Robert.A
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Unlimited, Inc: 2004 24/4/06
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24/4/06 home.att metlletsynewmanh/botson info.htm |
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Historical Terms
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| Lobsterback |
Merchant |
| Mob |
Musket |
| Protest |
Tax |
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About the Historian
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Adriana likes to do math. She plays
basketball. She likes to go to the Boy's and Girl's Club
after school to help other children.
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