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saw some persons with sticks coming up Quaker Lane. I said to the sentry Capt. Goldsmith owed my fellow apprentice. He said he was a gentlemen and would pay everybody. I said there was none in the
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Broaders gave a short account of what happened the evening of March 5 in which Garrick is mentioned talking to British soldier Sergeant Daniels before the Massacre. Broaders' story was published in 1775 and found online. Garrick was first to testify at the Queen Street Courthouse, where
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Garrick's early childhood, but he was 13 years old when the Boston Massacre took place. Thirteen was a common age for boys to become apprentices in the 18th century, and Garrick was an apprentice at the time of the Massacre. Around 1770, he was employed by John Piemont, a
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