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German Boy and Boston Funeral Stirring Revolutionary Echoes
John Adams records a 1770 Boston funeral crowd for Christopher Sehneider and the fatal shooting by Richard Wilmot and Thomas Richardson. The account links the event to growing revolutionary sentiment, noting mob action, trials, and references to Otis, Henry, and local German emigration roots in Waldos.
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John Adams
Boston
Lir
Liberts
Richards
Jeds
Huiberty
Howse
Kay Cheval
Celine
Theo
Chuies
Christopher Sochnender
Eichevezer Mehardsen
Theopiilus Lille
Washington
Lille
Richardson
Stong
Thomas Kruox
Rachardson
Courbal
Tell
Sammy Core
Christopher Sehneider
Warren
Frog Lane
New England
Waldos
Samuel Waldo
Massachusetts
Maine
Sen Tors Fessenden
Frye
Sake
Vermont
Hans Sevehs
Boas
Wolfe
Bos
Schuener
Attucks