The "Boston massacre" looking for a British side scholarly internet source

[Stand_watie]

for my fifth grade daughter.

I did this in fifth or 6th grade too, and it looks like my daughter has found the same type of texts I had read at that point, so far - Ie, "youths throwing snowballs" etc.

Ian, or anybody else with a British side education? My dad quoted John Adams defending the British troops, when I asked him about it as a kid.

[K Frame]

At one time the entire transcript of John Adams' defense of the British soldiers was available on-line. Hopefully it still is. It is probably the best account. It may be available at this site: http://www.bostonmassacre.net/trial/trial-summary1.htm 

See the link British view. There's also an account by Thomas Preston, officer in charge of the British unit that fired on the crowd.

Thomas Hutchinson's accounts are probably also widely available, if not online, via a library. Hutchinson was acting royal governor of Massachusetts when the incident occurred. Hutchinson would have reported back to London on the entire incident, and may also have submitted a formal account to the Massachusetts legislature.

[Perd Hapley]

Hutchinson's account would probably be the best source from a British perspective.  I don't recall if he was American or British by birth, but he was certainly British in his sympathies, yet close enough to the scene to be well-informed.   

[Ned Hamford]

Benefit of Clergy... not bad at all...

[Vodka7]

http://scholar.google.com is just about the most awesome thing since sliced bread when it comes to writing papers--I wish it was live back when I was in school.  Note that a lot of the hits are going to be for journal indexes like JSTOR, which she'll have to access from a public library since her school probably won't have a subscription.