the flashes thereof from out of the house, now cal-
led the CUSTOM-HOUSE, as they evidently
ap-
peared to him, and which he the said deponent
at the same time declared to the aforesaid Moli-
neux and Simpson, being then near him, saying
to them, (at the same time pointing his hand to-
wards the custom-house), there they are out of
the custom-house.
George Coster, being in
King-street at the time
above mentioned, declares that in five or six mi-
nutes after he stopped, he heard the word of
command given to the soldiers fire; upon which
one gun was fired, which did no execution, as
the deponent observed, about half a minute after
two guns, one of which killed one Samuel Gray
a ropemaker, the other a molatto man, between
which two men the deponent stood, after this
the deponent heard the discharge of four or five
guns more, by the soldiers ; immediately after
which the deponent heard the discharge of two
guns or pistols, from an open window of the middle
story of the CUSTOM-HOUSE, near to the place
where the centry box is placed, and being but a
small distance from the window, he heard the
people from within speak and laugh, and soon
after saw the casement lowered down ; after
which the deponent assisted others in carrying
off one of the corps.
Cato, a Negro man, servant to
Tuthill Hub-
bart, Esq; delcares, that on Monday evening the
fifth of March current, on hearing the cry of fire,
he ran into
Kingstreet, where he saw a number