Knowles Riot (1747) On this day in 1747, an anti-draft riot began when workers in Boston, later condemned as a "Tumultuous Assembly of Foreign Seamen, Servants, Negroes, and Other Persons of Mean...
Knowles Riot (1747) On this day in 1747, an anti-draft riot began when workers in Boston, later condemned as a "Tumultuous Assembly of Foreign Seamen, Servants, Negroes, and Other Persons of Mean...
Knowles Riot (1747)
Fri Nov 17, 1747
On this day in 1747, an anti-draft riot began when workers in Boston, later condemned as a "Tumultuous Assembly of Foreign Seamen, Servants, Negroes, and Other Persons of Mean and Vile Condition", attacked police and state officials.
The Knowles Riot, also known as the Impressment Riot of 1747, was a three-day riot in Boston that began on November 17th, 1747. The uprising was in response to the impressment (conscription) of 46 Bostonians by Admiral Charles Knowles into the navy.
Hundreds of mostly working-class rioters rampaged through Boston, surrounded the house of the governor, assaulted the sheriff, and imprisoned the deputy sheriff, along with several naval officers. The governor ordered the militia to suppress the riot, but they refused, forcing him to flee the city.
The rioters were later condemned by a merchants' group as a "Riotous Tumultuous Assembly of Foreign Seamen, Servants, Negroes, and Other Persons of Mean and Vile Condition."
- Date: 1747-11-17
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com.
- Tags: #Riots.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org