At the ropeworks, you fight with a mob of ropeworkers and others who work in the area. There are too many of them for you to win the fight. After returning to the barracks to ask more soldiers to help, you try again. But once again, the workers have the upper hand.
Ropeworkers used simple machines to twist fibers into rope.
On Saturday, three of your fellow soldiers go back to the ropeworks. During the fight that follows, Private John Rodgers suffers a broken arm and a cracked skull. This news makes you even angrier. But you won’t be able to do anything about it tomorrow. Sunday is for attending church services, not fighting.
“Wait until Monday night,” a soldier says. “We’ll settle this once and for all.”
“I wish I could go with you,” you say, but you have guard duty that evening. Your shift follows that of Private Hugh White.
On Monday night, you are polishing your musket in the barracks. You hear White shout, “Turn out, Main Guard!” Church bells begin clanging. That usually means there’s a fire.
“Turn out, Main Guard!” White calls again.
Captain Thomas Preston shouts, “I need men to help White at the sentry post.”