The reason why the colonists started to boycott the British goods is because they viewed the taxes as unfair and they

In my interview with Robert Paine, I asked him many questions about the Boston Massacre. The first question I asked him was about the trial. Now, for the trial, Mr. Paine was the lawyer for the Prosecution. Throughout the trial, Mr. Paine called up about four people as witnesses. Mr. Paine believes that the British soldiers that fired into the crowd of colonists were guilty. Throughout the trial he stated that there was no proof that Captain Preston said to fire into the crowd, and if he didn't order it, then he wandered why they would fire.

The British soldiers that were involved in the Boston were put on trial, and there were some colonists who thought that they were innocent and some that thought that they were guilty. Robert Paine believed that the soldiers were guilty and he used several pieces of evidence to prove it.

One piece of evidence that Robert Paine used during the trial was a witness named Charles Bourgatte. Charles Bourgatte was a 14 year old boy who worked for a man named Edward Manwaring. Edward Manwaring was one of the toughest custom officers in Boston. During the trial Bourgatte said, "When the riot started, I ran into King Street and to the door of the Custom House. Someone pulled me in. A tall man sent me upstairs and told me to stand by a window on the second floor. He gave me two guns and told me, 'If you don't fire, I will kill you.'" This quote tells us that Charles Bourgatte was forced to fire the guns, but later in the text it says he does not fire them into the crowd.

In my interview with John Adams, who was the lawyer for the Defense, I talked to him about what he said to his witnesses and asked him a few questions about his point of view on the trial. First, I talked to Mr. Adams about one of his witnesses, Captain Thomas Preston, who I will be interviewing later. I started out by asking him why he brought Captain Preston up to the stand. When he was talking to Captain Preston, Mr. Adams had Captain Preston talk about what his point of view was when the Boston Massacre happened. While Captain Preston was on the stand, he said that the mob of colonists that had clubs and were shouting at the soldiers. Also, he said that the crowd was chanting at the soldiers to fire at them if they dare. Captain Preston stated that he was standing between the mob and the 

crowd, and he was trying to get the mob of colonists to leave. Captain Preston also said that he did not order the soldiers to fire, and as he was speaking, one of the soldiers received a

blow to the head from one of the colonists in the angry mob, and after he stumbled back a little bit, he fired into the crowd. During the trial, John Adams also called up Richard Palmes, Andrew, and James Penny to the stand. While he was talking to these three other witnesses, he asked them questions about their side of the story and how they viewed the Boston Massacre. When Adams was talking to James Penny, Penny said that a boy was paid by one of the Sons of Liberty to lie about being told to fire a gun from the Customs House on the night that the Boston Massacre took place. Later in the trial, Penny said that he was not told the name of the boy who was bribed, but he was told that he worked for Mr. Manwaring.

In my interview with Charles Bourgatte, I asked him about what he said while he was on the stand as a witness during the trial of the British soldiers that took place after the Boston Massacre. Charles Bourgatte was one of the witnesses for the Prosecution. As I said in one of my previous interviews with Robert Paine, Charles Bourgatte stated in the trial, "When the riot started, I ran into King Street and to the door of the Custom House. Someone pulled me in. A tall man sent me upstairs and told me to stand by a window on the second floor. He gave me two guns and told me, 'If you don't fire, I will kill you.'" In this quote it shows that Charles Bourgatte was forced to choose between his life or whether or not he would fire the gun he was given. He decided that he would fire the gun, but when he did he fired it at the sky so it wouldn't hurt anyone in the angry mob of colonists. Later after he shot the two guns, Charles Bourgatte was bribed by the same man who gave him the guns, and he was told that he would be given money as long as he didn't tell anyone about what happened. 

In my interview with Captain Thomas Preston, I talked to him about his point of view on the Boston Massacre and I asked him to tell me his side of the story of what happened at the Boston Massacre. Captain Preston was one of a few witnesses called to the stand for the witness of the Defense. After snowballs and clubs were being thrown, with everyone's lives now being in danger, the crowd shouted, "Why don't you fire!" at the British soldiers and after that was said three or four of the British soldiers fired their guns into the open crowd. Now, Captain Preston was not the one who said to fire, but it came from the angry mob of colonists. Captain Preston even admitted that he was not the person who told the soldiers to fire, and he said that he asked the soldiers why they fired without orders. Captain Preston said that his soldiers later told him that they thought they heard him say fire, but didn't know for sure since many people in the mob were saying it. By the end of the trial, Preston never said that he told the soldiers to fire and when they did fire, they did it without the order to.  

Overall, the event that occurred on March 5, 1770 and was known as the Boston Massacre, was an event where British soldiers fired into an open crowd of American colonists. There were many things that made the British soldiers look guilty, and there were things that made the British soldiers look innocent. Both lawyers, John Adams and Robert Paine, presented their cases very well, and in the end no side won. Both sides had their own benefits, and each side had their losses, but in the end, the Boston Massacre was a tragic event in history that killed 5 people and caused a lot of chaos in Boston, Massachusetts, along with many other British colonies along the east coast in America.