Four Citizens Shot and Killed in Cambridge, MA
As you know, I am documenting some of the landmarks of the American Revolution that are common but often ignored sites around Boston. This one is new to me – I saw it for the first time this week when I stopped to get a haircut in North Cambridge. It is a timely reminder that governments can and do kill their own citizens. This is the reason the right of citizens to to keep and bear arms is enshrined in our Constitution.
April 19, 1775
The inscription reads:
AT THIS PLACE
APRIL 19, 1775
FOUR CITIZENS WERE KILLED
BY BRITISH SOLDIERS
RETREATING FROM LEXINGTON
- – -
ERECTED BY THE CITY
1830
NAMES OF THOSE KILLED
ISAAC GARDINER, WILLIAM MARCY
JOHN HICKS, MOSES RICHARDSON
APRIL 19, 1775
FOUR CITIZENS WERE KILLED
BY BRITISH SOLDIERS
RETREATING FROM LEXINGTON
- – -
ERECTED BY THE CITY
1830
NAMES OF THOSE KILLED
ISAAC GARDINER, WILLIAM MARCY
JOHN HICKS, MOSES RICHARDSON
