Specifically, would the soldiers have been quartered in urban populations more than rural populations? In what areas might the British army have had greater prevalence?
Thomas Gage, Commander in Chief, North America, kept his headquarters in New York City from 1763 to May 1774. New York and Boston as both vital ports and hotspots of trouble were focus of larger garrisons. In particular Gage gradually withdrew frontier fort garrisons bsck east as the threat of French backed Indian troubles waned.
Appointed Military Governor of Massachusetts he arrived in force with both the 29th and 14th Regiments of Foot and had more battalions on the way. Troops were initially quartered on progressively constructed barracks on the city green.