[Footnote 23: The ancient name of Portland, in Maine, at this period a
part of the province of Massachusetts Bay.]
[Footnote 24: Ebenezer Richardson. The affair happened on the 22d
February, 1770, a few days before the other and more serious disturbance
here alluded to, commonly known as the Boston massacre. A man of the
government side, by the name of Lillie, who kept a shop in Hanover
Street, finding the non-importation agreement not universally observed,
ventured to offer his stock of goods for sale. As a consequence, his
shop was at once marked out in the street as infringing the agreement,
and a board set up on which a hand was drawn for the purpose of
arresting attention and deterring all persons from purchasing.
Richardson, well known as an informer attached to the custom house, who
lived close by, came out and attempted to get rid of the board. A
struggle took place. The mob drove him back to his house, and attacked
it with stones. He then fired a musket twice, killing a German boy
eleven years old, by the name of Christopher Snyder, and wounding
another very severely.]