tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post516740281703491021..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “Three persons which I saw lay on the snow in the street”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-32135777640063331822016-03-04T21:43:13.738-05:002016-03-04T21:43:13.738-05:00Given how King Street was one of the town’s busies...Given how King Street was one of the town’s busiest roads, and there were clearly a lot of people tramping around the sentry box outside the Customs House that night, and it wasn’t snowing up to the moment of the confrontation, I don’t think we can read Green’s comment as evidence there was a foot of fluffy snow on the ground. One possibility is that he was mistaken. More likely, I suspect that the winter's snow had been trampled and rolled and otherwise packed down—not plowed aside as we do today. So the bodies lay on top of some inches of hard-packed, not very white snow. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-11442644351952204902016-03-04T07:36:54.151-05:002016-03-04T07:36:54.151-05:00I'm having trouble imagining this scene. If t...I'm having trouble imagining this scene. If the snow was a foot deep, how could the crowd move? Yes, Bostonians can walk in foot deep snow (see last winter) but it takes some effort. A large group of people would also tamp down the snow, but Hammond Green says he saw the bodies lay on the snow which he supposed was a foot deep? Was the snow shoveled in front of the sentry box? Or did the injured move off into a snow bank? Was he overestimating how much snow was on the ground? <br /><br />Thanks for any insight you might have.<br /><br />Love you blog.<br />A faithful readercsccathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01086267403885905754noreply@blogger.com