The prosecution lawyers were Robert Treat Paine and Samuel Quincy. The defense team included John Adams, Josiah Quincy, Jr. (Samuel Quincy's brother), Sampson Salter Blowers, and Robert Auchmuty. Both trials lasted longer than one day, which was rare at this time for Massachusetts courts.Oct 29, 2021
Preston denied that he gave an order to fire and was supported by three defense witnesses, while four witnesses for the prosecution swore that he had given the order. The massacre label stood even after a Boston jury later acquitted Captain Preston and four of the soldiers of all charges.
Thomas Theodore Bliss, a younger brother of Loyalist Daniel, was born at Concord in the same year that the New England militiamen, under William Pepperell, captured the mighty fortress of Louisbourg.
Richard Palmes was a Boston resident at the time of the Boston massacre in 1770.