his bruises. He then said that he had been
searching for a serjeant who had been
murdered.
--Upon which Mr. Gray said,
"Yes, Colonel;
"I hear you have been searching for him in my
"rope-walks;" and asked him whether that
serjeant had been in the affray there on the
Fri-
day? The Colonel replied,
"No; for he was
"seen on the Saturday." Mr. Gray then asked
him how he could think of looking for him in
his walks, and said that, if he had applied to
him, he would have waited on him and have
opened every apartment he had for his satisfac-
tion. This is the substance of Mr. John Gray's
desposition (No.9.) and shews how greatly the
suspicions of the officers and soldiers were alarm-
ed by the sudden and unaccountable absence of
the serjeant.
On Monday, the 5th of March, the day of
the disturbance that proved fatal to some of the
inhabitants, about seven o'clock in the evening,
numbers of the towns-people of
Boston were
seen walking in the streets, in several different
parties of from about three to six men each, arm-
ed with clubs. Mr. John Gillespie, in his
depo-
sition, (No.104.) declares that, as he was going
to the south end of the town, to meet some
friends at a public house, he met several people
in the streets in parties of this kind, to the num-
ber, as he thinks, of forty or fifty persons; and
that while he was sitting with his friends there,
several persons of his acquaintance came in to
them at different times, and took notice of the