Crispus Attucks
He was an escaped slave of Natick Indian and African ancestry who lived in Framingham , seventeen miles from Boston .  Working as a seaman under the name of Michael Johnson, he has long been called the first known casualty of the American Revolution.  On March 5, 1770 he was among a group of working men who were protesting the presence of British troops in Boston (the British Army occupied Boston in 1768).  The soldiers fired into the crowd and killed Attucks and four others in an incident soon dubbed the “Boston Massacre” by Sam Adams.  Ten thousand people attended the funeral of the five victims in the largest gathering that the North American continent had ever seen.
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