Customs officer and British loyalist who shot and killed 11-year-old Christopher Seider during a protest in Boston's North End on February 22, 1770; the funeral became a major political event, with the death heightening tensions that erupted into the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Partly-printed DS, endorsed on the reverse, “Ebenezer Richardson,” one page, 8.25 x 6.5, September 15, 1755. Warrant issued to "the Sheriff of Our County Essex or Middlesex," commanding him to "Attach the Goods or Estate of Thomas Banfroct of to the Value of Eight Pounds, and for want thereof to take the Body of the said Thomas (if he may be found in your precinct) and him safely keep, so that you have him before Our Justices of Our Inferiour Court of Commona Pleas next to be holden at Newbury…to Anwer unto Jebediah Abbot…In a Plea of the Case for that the defendant at Andover…for value promised to pay." Endorsed on the reverse by Richardson, "'I attached a Dwelling House of the Defendants in Reading…at his usual place of abode. Ebenezer Richardson." In fine condition.
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