Chapter I: Front Matter

UNDER THE LIBERTY TREE.

STORIES OF
American History,
BY
JAMES OTIS.

=Under the Liberty Tree:= A Story of the
Boston Massacre.

=The Boys of 1745= at the Capture of Louisbourg.

=An Island Refuge:= Casco Bay in 1676.

=Neal the Miller:= A Son of Liberty.

=Ezra Jordan's Escape= from the Massacre at
Fort Loyall.

_Each volume cloth, small 12 mo, neatly
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ESTES & LAURIAT,
PUBLISHERS.

UNDER THE LIBERTY TREE

A STORY OF
THE "BOSTON MASSACRE"

BY
JAMES OTIS

AUTHOR OF "JENNY WREN'S BOARDING-HOUSE," "JERRY'S FAMILY,"
"THE BOYS' REVOLT," "THE BOYS OF 1745," ETC.

BOSTON
ESTES AND LAURIAT
1896

_Copyright, 1896,_
BY ESTES AND LAURIAT
_All rights reserved_

Colonial Press:
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
Electrotyped by Geo. C. Scott & Sons

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE LIBERTY TREE 11

II. FIRST FRUITS 29

III. LIBERTY HALL 49

IV. A DISCOMFITED CREDITOR 67

V. A NIGHT OF TERROR 81

VI. AFTER THE MASSACRE 101

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE SOLDIERS FIRE _Frontispiece_

"HOW LONG IS IT SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN HOBNOBBING
IN THAT QUARTER?" 13

"THEY ARE INDULGING IN TREASONABLE PRACTICES" 19

ATTACHING THE WARNING 27

"WILL YOU GIVE ME THE MONEY NOW?" 35

"YOU ARE A COWARD!" 40

"RAISING HIS MUSKET QUICKLY, AND WITHOUT TAKING
AIM, HE FIRED" 45

PAUL REVERE AND AMOS 50

THE CROWD UNDER THE LIBERTY TREE 61

"THE SENTRY KNOCKED HIM DOWN" 71

"ONE OF THE FRAGMENTS STRUCK MRS. RICHARDSON" 74

"MEN AND BOYS RUSHED FROM THEIR HOMES" 85

ATTUCKS 89

"TO THE MAIN GUARD" 95

"POOR SAM!" 102

"BOTH REGIMENTS OR NONE!" 107

"Your Lordship must know that Liberty Tree is a large, old Elm in
the High Street, upon which the effigies were hung in the time of
the Stamp Act, and from whence the mobs at that time made their
parades. It has since been adorned with an inscription, and has
obtained the name of Liberty Tree, as the ground under it has
that of Liberty Hall. In August last, just before the
commencement of the present troubles, they erected a flagstaff,
which went through the tree, and a good deal above the top of the
tree. Upon this they hoist a flag as a signal for the Sons of
Liberty, as they are called."

_Extract from a letter written by Governor Bernard to Lord Hillsborough under date of June 18, 1768._

* * * * *

"The world should never forget the spot where once stood Liberty
Tree, so famous in your annals."

_The Marquis de Lafayette, in a speech delivered in Boston during his last visit to America._

UNDER THE LIBERTY TREE

A Story of the "Boston Massacre"