Of these four persons Hammond Green alone
has been examined: and he says in his deposition,
(No.95.) that he went up stairs into the lower
west chamber, and saw the guns fired by the
soldiers: but says not a word about the four or
five men and the boy, Charlotte Bourgate,
whom they forced to fire off a gun twice out of
the window, which he could not but have known
if it had happened. He says also, that the three
women before-mentioned, Elizabeth Avery,
Mary Rogers, and Ann Green, were up
stairs
likewise at the time of the soldiers firing. They
therefore must likewise have seen these four or
five men and the boy Charlotte Bourgate, and
have known of his firing the gun, if it was true
that he had done so. But it has not been thought
fit to examine them, or at least publish their
depositions.
As to the other part of this boy's charge, to
wit, that Mr. Manwaring and Mr. Monroe
were
both present at the custom-house at the time
of
the soldiers firing, and that Mr. Manwaring did
himself fire a gun out of the window, this is
proved to be utterly false, and even impossible,
by the deposition of Michael Angelo Warwell,
(No.122.) who declares that these gentlemen
were at that time at a distance from the custom-
house, to wit, in Mr. Manwaring's lodgings in
Back-street, and had been there from seven
o'clock in the evening, that is, more than two
hours before the soldiers fired, and continued
there till half an hour after ten o'clock, when,