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	EXPLORE: Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara - Dictionary of Famous People
		Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara ( 1585 - 1655) was an Irish soldier of the seventeenth century.
		Preston was in the same Irish regiment in the Spanish service as Owen Roe O'Neill, and distinguished himself in the defence of Leuven against the French and Dutch in 1635.
		Preston surendered the city on condition that he and his troops be allowed to leave the country and find employment in the French army.
	www.explore-biography.com /biographies/T/Thomas_Preston%2C_1st_Viscount_Tara.html

	Account of the trial of Captain Preston
		Although the trial of Captain Thomas Preston (who Preston commanded the British troops involved in the Boston Masacre) was transcribed in shorthand by John Hodgson, the transcript has not survived.
		After all the firing Captain Preston put up the Gun of a Soldier who was going to fire and said fire no more you have done mischief enough.
		Preston was within 2 yards of me and before the Men and nearest to the right and facing the Street.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/bostonmassacre/prestontrialexcerpts.html

	Boston Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The commotion brought the Officer of the Day, Captain Thomas Preston, who came to the soldier's aid with a corporal and eight other soldiers of the 29th Regiment of Foot.
		Their officer, Captain Thomas Preston, was acquitted when the jury was unable to determine whether he had ordered the troops to fire.
		In all the commotion, Captain Preston's order of "Don't Fire" was likely misinterpreted, and as the parties closed, the soldiers did fire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boston_Massacre (486 words)

	“The Boston Massacre”
		The British captain, Thomas Preston, and eight of his soldiers were indicted for murder.
		Adams succeeded in casting grave doubt as to whether Preston ever gave orders to shoot and the Boston Jury acquitted the captain.
		He also argued that the soldier that fired first acted only as one might expect anyone to act in such confused and potentially life-threatening conditions
	www.umary.edu /faculty/jlbrud/HIS271/Webographies/BostonMassacre.htm (492 words)

	Complete research resource on the Boston Massacre event. Pictures and more.
		Finally, Captain Thomas Preston stopped the soldiers from firing, and after the smoke cleared, three colonists were dead and two were wounded.
		John Adams, Samuel Adams' cousin, defended the soldiers and Captain Thomas Preston.
		A soldier, Captain Hugh White, was being hit with rocks, snowballs, and wood by a few colonist boys.
	www.bostonmassacre.net /academic/essay1.htm (383 words)

	Boston NHP: Freedom Trail/Boston Massacre Site
		Captain Thomas Preston, officer of the day, heard the cries of his sentry and gathered together his men.
		The soldier and Captain Preston were defended by patriots John Adams (cousin of Samuel Adams) and Josiah Quincy, who wanted to ensure a fair trial.
		Within minutes Preston and a squad of six soldiers marched from their quarters to the site of the ensuing riot.
	www.nps.gov /bost/bost_lographics/bostmass.htm (443 words)

	American Revolutionary Facts
		Captain Thomas Preston led some British Soldiers to aid another British Soldier who was having things thrown at him and was also hit several times with a board.
		Captain Thomas Preston and eight soldiers were charged with murder.
		After their arrival, the people continued to pelt the soldiers and finally shots were fired and the infamous "Boston Massacre" was over.
	www.russpickett.com /ushist/revfacts.htm (1035 words)

	WPI Department of Military Science - The Boston Massacre
		This lead to a small riot, and the Boston Garrison responded with a small squad of soldiers under the command of Captain Thomas Preston.
		When Montgomery returned to his feet he took aim into the crowd and fired, his compatriots joined him, under no command of Preston.
		Insults exchanged between a British soldier and a local merchant ended with a butt-stroke of a musket.
	www.wpi.edu /Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/abs_bosmass.html (264 words)

	The Boston Massacre
		As a result of the trial, Captain Preston and six soldiers were set free.
		The governor ordered Captain Preston and eight soldiers be put in prison pending a trial.
		After the shooting, the people of Boston were demanding the soldiers be tried and executed for the shootings.
	kidport.com /RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/BostonMassacre.htm (260 words)

	Revolutionary War WebQuest
		Transcript of the Trial of Captain Thomas Preston, who was in charge of the British troops involved in the "Boston Masacre"
		The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." - The American Crisis by Thomas Paine
		Flag carried by His Majesty's troops gathering in Boston
	www.coollessons.org /revolutionarywarwebquest.htm (950 words)

	1585 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, Irish soldier (died 1655)
		July 6 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (born 1552)
		November 23 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (born 1505)
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1585 (950 words)

	Bingham Genealogy - Gates Family History
		Thomas Gates (Ensign), born in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, 31 December 1669; died in Preston, 1752; married (1) Elizabeth Freeman and (2) Margaret Geer (1695).
		Thomas Gates, son of Isaac and Mary (Wheeler) Gates, born 7 May 1772 [1776] in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire; died in Ogden, Weber, Utah, 22 June 1851.
		Lucinda Gates, daughter of Thomas and Patty (Plumly) Gates, born in Ackworth, Cheshire, New Hampshire, 19 Sep 1797; died in Ogden, Weber, Utah, 3 January 1874; married Erastus Bingham in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, 20 March 1818.
	www.familyhistorypages.com /Gates.htm (4990 words)

	Fort Belvoir News
		Preston went on to talk about the commute Soldiers face who live on Fort Belvoir but work on Fort Myer.
		of the Army Kenneth Preston visited Soldiers at Fort Belvoir Tuesday, May 25 as part of a tour of two of the Military District of Washington’s posts with the intention of getting “a feel for how everyone works and plays” in the area.
		“The quality of life in the Army is what will keep a Soldier in the Army,” said Preston as he walked through the halls of Tencza Terrace with Stinson, Greer and Brenda Martell, the FMMC housing manager, before hurrying off to visit with the U.S. Army Band at its Fort Myer home, Brucker Hall.
	www.belvoir.army.mil /news.asp?id=topsoldier (763 words)

	An Arkansas Connection ... - Person Page 496
		His successor, Christopher, had shown himself, as we have seen, before the close of Queen Elizabeth's reign a brave soldier, but had displayed the impetuosity and recklessness of character which are so often united with courage its the Irish race.
		Christopher Preston 4th Viscount Gormanston (M) Christopher Preston 4th Viscount Gormanston married Catherine ______.
		William Fitzwilliam 3rd Viscount Fitzwilliam married Mary Luttrell, daughter of Thomas Luttrell Esq.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~xrysta/acdpcd-p/p496.htm (763 words)

	The Hedges Family
		Thomas Metcalfe Campbell was the son of John Preston Campbell and Jane Lee Metcalfe and was born on January 2, 1832.
		John Davis was a Rev. soldier from Virginia and raised a family of ten children--2 sons and 8 daughters.
		Stephen Lee was the son of Richard Lee, son of Hancock Lee, son of Thomas Lee, the progenitory of all the Lee family, who came to Virginia in 1649.
	www.shawhan.com /hedges.html (22268 words)

	Indictment for the Murder of Crispus Attucks March 13
		And so the jurors aforesaid, upon their said oath, do say that the Thomas Preston [names repeated] did kill and murder the said Crispus Attucks, against the peace of the said Lord the King, his crownd and dignity.
		Captain Preston, eight soldiers, and four civilian employees of the Customs office are accused of aiding and abetting in the murder of Attucks.
		The bill accuses soldier William Warren of firing the two bullets that killed Attucks.
	web.cortland.edu /killmo83/Indictment%20for%20the%20Murder%20of%20Crispus%20Attucks%20March%2013.htm (112 words)

	Pendroy Civil War Veterans from Jasper and Marion County Iowa & Also, Some Others, Gone But Not Forgotten...
		Mary Elizabeth Berry was the daughter of William Preston and Rachel (Pendroy) Berry of Monroe, Iowa.
		Lookup any American Soldier that died in Korea and Vietnam War: Electronic Records in the National Archives.
		Burns records a letter from Capt. Thomas McMillan M.D., Assistant Surgeon of the USA Steamer and the (late) Capt. George Wheaton stating Abraham had died aboard the USA Hospital Transport "General Barnes" from illness in the war.
	home.att.net /~Pendroy/military.html (1044 words)

	John C. Breckinridge
		His grandfather, John Breckinridge (1760-1806), who revised Thomas Jefferson's draft of the "Kentucky Resolutions" of 1798, was a United States Senator from Kentucky in 1801-5 and Attorney General in President Jefferson's cabinet in 1805-6.
		The American soldier and politician John C. Breckinridge was born near Lexington, Kentucky, on the 21st of January 1821.
		His cousin, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904), was a Democratic representative in Congress from 1885 to 1893.
	www.nndb.com /people/557/000050407 (614 words)

	The National Archives National Register of Archives Browse the combined corporate and business indexes
		Holgate, Thomas (fl 1917) Soldier With London Rifle Brigade, World War I, London (1)
		Hodson, William (fl 1886-1924) Joiner And Undertaker, Preston (1)
		Hodson, George (1788-1855) Archdeacon of Stafford and Chancellor of Lichfield Cathedral (1)
	www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/browser/person/page/person_HO.htm (614 words)

	John Ernest Nethery
		However, it is my conjecture, as one who has studied the genealogy and history of the Nethery family for almost twenty-five years, that JAMES NETHERY a Jacobite soldier in the Rebellion of 1715 in Scotland and England may have been Thomas Nethery, Sr.'s father.
		In the Battle of Preston, England on November 14, 1715, Jacobite forces under the command of the Earl of Wintoun were overcome and captured by the Army of His Majesty the King, George I of England.
		Subsequently, James Nethery and many other Jacobites from Scotland and northern England became prisoners of war.
	www.loyalnethery.com:8180 /loyalnethery/whowasthomasnethery.html (1806 words)

	Ulster Plantation
		Owen Roe, a nephew of Hugh O&, the “Great Earl” was a professional soldier and was given leadership of the Ulster army.
		Richard Preston, Earl of Desmond, also arrived from abroad about the same time and he had the support of the Sean Ghall.
		With the accession of Charles to the English throne, certain concessions were promised to Catholics by the Lord Deputy, Thomas Wentworth, in return for large sums of money.
	www.hoganstand.com /general/identity/stories/ulster.htm (1177 words)

	RHS BRONZE MEDALS 1902
		January 1902, a soldier was seized with cramp while bathing in the Vaal River at Standerton and sunk in 10 feet of water.
		August 1902, a lady fell into 20 feet of water at Douglas, Isle of Man. Preston plunged in and, at great risk, supported her till they were picked up by a boat.
		February 1902, owing to the capsizing of a boat in which he was leaving his wrecked smack, Thomas Foster was thrown into the sea at Ramsgate.
	www.lsars.eurobell.co.uk /bronz02s.htm (7735 words)

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