Christopher Seider was a boy who is considered to be the first American killed in the American Revolution. He was 11 years old when he was shot and killed by British customs officer Ebenezer Richardso
The Bloody Massacre, Paul Revere's engraving of The Boston Massacre of March 1770. In the background on the right, the Customs House has been renamed "Butcher's Hall" and a gun can be seen firing from a window, an oblique reference to Seider's death.
The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in the prelude to the American Revolution in Boston, in what was then the colony of the
Christopher Seider
…Ebenezer Richardson in Boston on February 22, 1770. His funeral became a major political event, with his death heightening tensions that erupted into the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Seider was born in 1758, the son of poor German immigrants. On February 22, 1770, he joined a crowd outside the house of Ebenezer…
Old State House in Boston, the capital of the Province of Massachusetts during the colonial era from 1713 to 1776; the cobblestone circle is labeled "Site of the Boston Massacre", but the Boston Massacre occurred nearby on what now is a busy Boston street.
A variation of Paul Revere's famous engraving, produced just prior to the American Civil War, which emphasizes Crispus Attucks, the black man in the center who became an important symbol for abolitionists.
A grave marker for the Granary Burying Ground in Boston, where those killed in the Boston Massacre were buried