A) I shall take it for granted that these snowballs, Sticks, Oyster shells and Blows struck on

the Guns and aimed at them. If you are Satisfied that the sentinel was insulted and

assaulted, and that Captain Preston and his Party went to assist them, it was doubtless

excusable Homicide, if not justifiable. Self Defense a Law of Nature, what every one of

us have a Right to, and may stand in need of.

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B) There has been a great deal done to prejudice the People against the Prisoner a
copper Plate Print, in which this Court has been insulted and call'd a [corrupt] Court, if

this Prisoner was not condemned. I myself was last Term insulted for giving my opinion

in a Point of Law. of the Prisoner's Witnesses mention the snow Balls, Ice, Clubbs, &c.

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C) Whether the Sentry was obliged to retreat from his Post. My opinion is, that the Party,

attacked in that violent manner they were not obliged to retreat at all.
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D) They have attempted to prove, that the People were not only the Aggressors, but attacked

the Soldiers: with so much Violence, that an immediate Danger of their own Lives, obliged them

to fire upon the Assailants, as they are pleased to call them. Now this violent Attack, turns out to

be nothing more, than a few Snow- Balls, thrown by a parcel of Boys; the most of them: at a

considerable distance, & as likely to hit the Inhabit: as the Soldiers: (all this is but which is a
common Case in ye Streets of Boston at that Season of the Year, when a Number of People are

collected in a Body) & one stick, that struck a Grenadier, but was not thrown with sufficient force

to wound, or even sally him: whence then this Outrage, fury & abuse, so much talk'd of? the

Inhabitants collected, Many of them from the best of Motives, to make peace; & some out of

mere Curiosity, & what was the Situation of Affairs when the Soldiers begun the fire?

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