Eric Shear

Sep 9, 2024 | swordandscales.org | Eric Shear |Daniel Woislaw |Nicole W.C. Yeatman |Elizabeth Slattery

It was a cold night in Boston. A lone British sentry stood on a cobbled square covered in snow. He guarded the Custom House, where officers enforced British import and export duties. He was nervous. Tempers were high in the colonial city: British troops had been quartered there for two years, sent by King George III to keep the peace after Parliament issued yet another round of taxes. Bostonians bristled under the soldiers’ watch.