out, and I will stand by you ; this he repeated
frequently, adding, Kill them ! stick them ; knock
them down; run your bayonets thro’ them,
with a
great deal of language of like import. Upon
which a great number of soldiers came out of the
barracks with naked cutlasses, headed by said Mall,
and went thro' the aforesaid alley; that some
offi-
cers came & got the soldiers into their barracks,
and that Mall, with his sword or cutlass drawn in
his hand, as often had them out again, but were
at last drove into their barracks by the afore-
said Minchin and
Dickson.
Mr. Henry Rhoads's declaration agrees with
Capt. Kirkwood's.
Mr. Matthias King of
Halifax in
Nova Scotia,
declares, that in the evening of
the fifth day of
March instant about nine of the clock, he was at
his lodgings at Mrs. Torrey's near the town pump,
and heard the bells ring and the cry of fire ; upon
which he went to the door and saw several sol-
diers come round the south side of the town
house, armed with bayonets, and something
which he took to be broad swords ; that one
of those people came up almost to him and Mr.
Bartholomew Kneeland ; and that they had but
just time to shut the door upon him ; otherwise
he is well assured they must have fell victims to
their boundless cruelty. He afterwards went into
the upper chamber of the said house, and
was looking out of the window when the drum
and the guard went to the barrack, and he saw
one of the guards kneel and present his piece,