He had been foremost in resisting and was first slain.

As proof of a front engagement, he received two balls, one in each breast.

The white men killed with Attucks were Samuel Maverick, Samuel Gray and Jonas Caldwell.
John Adams, afterwards President of the United States, was counsel for the soldiers in the investigation which followed.

He admitted that Attucks appeared to have been the hero of the occasion and the leader of the people.

Attucks and Caldwell, not being residents of Boston, were buried from Faneuil Hall, the cradle of liberty.