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Another time, a mob--including [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it is said, some men disguised as clergy--demolished a public market.
Eventually the mob got what it wanted: the Bostonians who had been seized were released. The memory of these events lingered and perhaps inspired organizers of the violence against Stamp Act in the mid-1760s, the unrest leading to the Boston Massacre in 1770
Shattering Windows in Old State House
Resisting Impressment of Seamen
The Massachusetts governor attempted to call out the militia. But, as militiamen agreed with the rioters—and were likely among the rioters-- the militia did not respond. Indeed, the size of the mob grew to 4,000, about one quarter of the town’s population. Crowds broke all the windows in the Town House (now known as the Old State House) and battered down its door. Rioters seized the sheriff and put him in the public stocks. The governor fled to Castle William, a military outpost on an island in Boston Harbor. Townsmen took hold of a small boat—thought to belong to the Knowles squadron—dragged it to the Common and set it on fire. As it turned out, the boat had nothing to with Knowles—it was owned by the master of a Scottish ship in the harbor.
By comparison, over that same period, four riots took place in New York and six occurred in Philadelphia.
In Boston, even many law-abiding townsmen saw the violent action of crowds as sometimes necessary and, in a perverse way, legitimate when figures of authority were stubborn, corrupt, or just plain slow to act.
Word spread like lightning of the impressments among friends, neighbors, fathers, mothers, sisters, wives, and girlfriends. Outraged townspeople gathered and rioted. With the impressed men out of reach on ships, rioters seized several British naval officers ashore and held them hostage.
The largest riot in this period occurred during the so-called Knowles Affair back in 1747. British warships under Commodore Charles Knowles had gathered outside Boston Harbor in preparation to sail to the West Indies. During that time several dozen sailors deserted, leaving the ship without full crews. Knowles ordered gangs of sailors to sweep through Boston and seize able-bodied men to fill his ranks. This impressment of seamen was a common enough practice. Whenever sickness or desertion depleted the ranks of sailors, impressment crews were often dispatched to kidnap men wherever they could find them. They would work fast and with brutish expedition, snatching up unwary men as they stumbled out of taverns, or grabbing men as they wandered home from the docks, or tricking naïve farmworkers passing through town. In this case [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], impressment crews snared 46 men from Boston taverns, shops and streets.
At least three Boston riots had to do with a shortage of bread. In two riots, the targets were brothels. One Boston riot followed a great fire in 1711. Another, in 1721, followed a smallpox epidemic.
Sometimes boisterous crowds in Boston had no focused political motivation, as with the mobs that roamed the Boston streets on Pope Day. But sometimes mobs rose up in response to grievances and had specific aims.
On at least one occasion [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a mob acted in the interest of the town government. The town had proposed a new street, conducted a survey and found that a man’s barn stood in the way. Rather than waiting for the tedious process of acquiring the property and compensating the obstinate owner, townspeople gathered one night, blackened their faces, and tore the barn down.
Bread Riots; Violence Against Brothels; Tearing Down a Barn
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