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​The Boston Massacre Walking Tour

                                All employees Moderna vaccinated, all stops outdoors, social distancing and masks currently required.
Learn of the political, social, military, religious and legal flash-points that began the march to the Boston Massacre and the American Revolution.  See our fourteen tour stops below .  Visit Colonial Boston beyond the Freedom Trail.  Tours begin at end of Long Wharf, past the Marriott Hotel. Best touring times are 10:30, 1:30 or 2:30.  Evening hours are possible but some historical sites close by 5:00 p.m. Request a tour  walkbostonhistory@gmail.com
Click on figures in yellow left, to learn more of each stop
Request a Tour at
walkbostonhistory@gmail.com
or call Mitch Lapin on 508-397-2518
​. You may pay using credit cards or Paypal in the field to the right



Tours form at the Long Wharf  on the waterfront by the American Flag just up from the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, and typically end at the Granary Burial Ground, just east of the Boston Common.  Contact us with your dates and times needed.  
mailto:Walkbostonhistory@gmail.com
Picture296 State Street, Boston under the American flag.
Tour fees: the Boston Massacre Tour provides for groups of 12-15 people.  The fee is $12 for each adult, $10 for seniors, children under 12 and any current military in uniform are free (no redcoats or lobster-backs please).

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​​This tour includes 14 stops. The walking grade and distance is grandma friendly, and covers:
  • The occupation of Boston
  • Murder or self defense on an outbound Boston vessel
  • Impressment! The first of several legal confrontations
  • Indenture! British soldiers indebted to colonial merchants
  • Corruption! The indenture law and desertion
  • Tory vs Radicals; The battle of the newspapers
  • Planned confrontations at the Neck 
  • The murder of young Snyder (Seider)
  • The rope walk riots the weekend of the massacre
  • The actual massacre location and outcome
  • Witnesses to the massacre
  • The two trials of the British Grenadiers
  • Meet the victims at the Granary Burial site
  • Learn of the post trial impact on the political rivals