The Boston Massacre.
The ‘Boston Gazette and Country Journal’ of March 12, 1770, in a list of those killed and wounded upon March 5th, mentions ‘a lad named John Clark about 17 years of age, whose parents live at Medford, and an apprentice to Capt. Samuel Howard of this town; wounded, a ball entered just about his groin and came out at his hip, on the opposite side, apprehended he will die.’
By the records in the City Clerk's office, this John Clark appears to have been the son of John and Mary (Smith) Clark, born in Medford, June 10, 1752, and baptized by the Rev. Ebenezer Turell on June 14th of the same year.
He died in Medford on the 26th of May, 1778.
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