the truth of the aforesaid affidavit, taken to perpetuate the
remembrance of the thing.
Before RI. DANA, Just. of Peace and of the Quorum.
JOHN HILL, Just. Peace.

(No. 76.)
I Thomas Jackson jun'r. do testify and declare, that on Mon-
day the 5th instant in the evening, being in company, I heard,
(as near as I can recollect), between nine and ten o'clock, a
drum beat to arms ; I immediately told the gentlemen (with
whom I was then engaged) I imagin'd there was some distur-
bance between the inhabitants and the soldiery, he replied,
foh, I believe it is nothing but boys, I told him I was afraid
there was something more in it than that, and desired him (as
the drum approached us), to look out of the window to see
whether they were soldiers, or not. He immediately opened
the window, and told me they were soldiers. Upon this in-
formation, I immediately put on my hat and went out. I had
not gone many paces before I met a man, of whom I enquired
the reason of the drum beating. He told me there were six
men killed in Kingstreet by the military: I immediately hasten-
ed on in my way to Kingstreet, and met another person by
Concert-hall, of whom I likewise enquired as aforesaid ;
his answer to me corresponded with the other. When
I got into kingstreet, I found a great number of people there
assembled, and intended going into the custom-house, to find
out the particulars of the affair. Upon my knocking at the
custom-house door with the knocker, Mr. Hammond Green
(who was then looking out of the window) ask'd me Who was
there ? I called him by name, and told him I wanted to come
into the custom-house. He told me he would not let me, nor even
his father (and I think he said) nor one of the commissioners, into
the house, for he had orders for so doing, or to that effect. I im-
mediately quitted the door and stayed some time at the bottom,
and then at the head of the town-house, where I met Capt.
John Riordan. While we were conversing, a party of the
29th regiment came down Queenstreet and joined the regiment
then at the town-house. Soon after that, I asked Capt. Rior-
dan if he would spend an hour at the coffee-house , he compli-
ed, and we immediately went, after spending some time there,
I went home, and in going home, I found the inhabitants were
gone off and the soldiers gone from the town-house. It was
some time before I came into kingstreet, that the guns were