In 1770 he attempted to issue " the first bible ever printed in America . " In late 1770 or early 1771 he published an account of the trial following the Boston Massacre . Fleeming sailed from Boston in 1773 on a ship that allegedly carried " a quantity of silver to the amount of 30,000 dollars ... from the Custom House here , being part of the revenue money which has so long been complained of as being unconstitutionally taken from us . " In 1778 the Massachusetts General Court prohibited Fleeming ( and many other Tories ) from returning , being named in the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre
John Fleeming