Seider was born in 1758 , the son of poor German immigrants . On February 22 , 1770 , he joined a crowd outside the house of Ebenezer Richardson in the North End . Richardson was a customs service employee who had tried to disperse a protest in front of the shop of Loyalist Theophilus Lillie . The crowd threw stones which broke Richardson 's windows and struck his wife . Richardson fired a gun into the crowd , wounding Seider in the arm and the chest . The boy died that evening . Samuel Adams arranged for the funeral , which was attended by more than 2,000 people . He was buried in Granary Burying Ground ; the victims of the Boston Massacre are buried near him
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Christopher Seider