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The first American killed in the American Revolution was an twelve-year-old boy named Christopher Seider.
The pellets wounded a nineteen-year-old and killed an eleven-year-old German boy, Christopher Seider. Seider's death inflamed Boston's street mobs. In effect, it proved to be the first death of what evolved into the American Revolution.