Title
Letter requesting assistance
Subject
Broad Street Riot
Description
Letter to the Mayor and Aldermen requesting assistance after the writer's house was looted.
Creator
McMorrow, Charles
Source
0100.001 City Council Proceedings, City of Boston Archives
Date
14 June 1837
Rights
This work is free of known copyright restrictions.
Format
paper
Language
english
Type
text
Identifier
1837-0066-I
Text
Boston, June 14, 1837
Honourable Sirs,
My present circumstances caused by this riot on Sunday last, I am necessitated to take my pen to acquaint you of my present distress. I was walking on forte hill at the time the riot commenced with my childe which I have 3 more to prove. I came home with the child through a mass of people . I made my escape free from injury to the house on purchase st where I lived for some time. I had not ben long in til the mob broke in and plundered all that was in the place. The[y] [k]new not at that time the[y] were destroying the property of their own countrywoman til she was forced to throw her child out the windo[w] and go after herself.
All gentlemen, I hope will see to a poor sickly woman in distress in her own country . We have not one cent to pay for milk for the childe but the[y] have taken everything in our house was destroyed in fact.
Chs McMorrow, Purchase St, Boston
In the Board of Aldermen June 19, 1837. Read and ref'd to the com'er who has under the consideration the subject of investigating the origin and circumstances of the disturbance of the public peace.
Sent down for concurrence.
In Common Council June 22, 1837
Read and concurred
Hr. Mareto
Honourable Sirs,
My present circumstances caused by this riot on Sunday last, I am necessitated to take my pen to acquaint you of my present distress. I was walking on forte hill at the time the riot commenced with my childe which I have 3 more to prove. I came home with the child through a mass of people . I made my escape free from injury to the house on purchase st where I lived for some time. I had not ben long in til the mob broke in and plundered all that was in the place. The[y] [k]new not at that time the[y] were destroying the property of their own countrywoman til she was forced to throw her child out the windo[w] and go after herself.
All gentlemen, I hope will see to a poor sickly woman in distress in her own country . We have not one cent to pay for milk for the childe but the[y] have taken everything in our house was destroyed in fact.
Chs McMorrow, Purchase St, Boston
In the Board of Aldermen June 19, 1837. Read and ref'd to the com'er who has under the consideration the subject of investigating the origin and circumstances of the disturbance of the public peace.
Sent down for concurrence.
In Common Council June 22, 1837
Read and concurred
Hr. Mareto