Private Hugh White stamped his feet and rubbed his hands together to warm them in the blistering cold of a March evening in Boston. Snow blanketed the ground around the Custom House he was tasked to guard. Royal revenue collected at the cost of antagonizing King George III’s colonial subjects rested within. An eleven-year-old boy named Christopher Seider was killed on February 22. He was hit by a stray bullet from the gun wielded by a customs official trying to protect a loyalist business from rioting colonists. Tensions ran high in Boston. The year was 1770, exactly two-hundred-fifty years ago....