Suffolk, ss. Boston, March 21. 1770. William Tyler, above-
named, after due examination, made oath to the truth of
aforesaid affidavit, taken to perpetuate the remem-
brance of the thing.
Before JOHN RUDDOCK, Just. Peace and of the Quorum.
JOHN HILL, Just. Peace.

(No. 25.)
HEnry Bass of lawful age testifies and says, that going from
his house in Winter-street, on Monday evening the fifth
of March, to see a friend in the neighbourhood of the Rev. Dr.
Cooper's meeting-house; that the bell was ringing for nine
o'clock when he came out of his house, and that he proceeded
down the main-street, and going near Draper's alley, lead-
ing to Murray's barracks, thro' which he purposed to pass,
heard some boys huzzaing, and imagines that there were
six or seven of them and not more; and presently after he saw
two or three persons in said alley with weapons, but cannot
positively say what they were. - Soon after several more came
into the alley and made a sally out, and those that came out
were soldiers, and thinks were all grenadiers, as they were
stout men, and were armed with a large naked cutlasses ; they made
at every body coming in their way, cutting and slashing ; the said
deponent very narrowly escaped receiving a cut from the fore-
most of them, who pursued him below Mr. Simpson's stone
shop, where he made a stand ; presently after, going up Corn-
hill he met an oyster man, who said to the deponent, damn it,
this is what I got by going up, and shewed the deponent a large
cut he had received from one of the soldiers with a cutlass over
his right shoulder; said deponent thinking it not safe but very
dangerous for him to go through the alley, he returned home
by the way of the Kingstreet through Royal Exchange lane, and
passed by the centinel at the corner of the Custom-house; and
said deponent further says, that be never saw fewer persons in
Kingstreet ,considering the pleasantness of the evening, and verily
believes there was not twelve persons between the Crown Coffee-house
and the bottom of the Town-house ; he imagines it to be then a-
bout fifteen or twenty minutes after nine : After said depo-
nent got to the head of the Town-house, he met a great many
persons who enquired of him about the affair ; the said depo-
nent told them there had been an affray by Murray's barracks,
but that it was then over, and further this deponent saith not.
    HENRY BASS.