Boston 1775

History, analysis, and unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution in Massachusetts.

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Matthias Hammond’s House and Anne Proctor’s Doll

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With all these stories about Founders’ children and dolls, I thought I should show an actual doll from the period. The Hammond-Harwood Ho...
Monday, September 25, 2023

“A Doll of the present mode”

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The little stories I’ve told over the last two days about Benjamin Franklin ’s and George Washington ’s grandchildren raise the question: ...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

“An innocent Baby may become the Victim of strife”

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Little Betsy Bache wasn’t alone in waiting a long time for a toy to arrive from France , as related yesterday . On 15 Apr 1785 , Adrienne...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

“Send her a doll not a fine one”

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On 16 Sept 1779, Sarah Bache wrote from Philadelphia to her father, Benjamin Franklin , in France with news of his grandchildren : Willy a...
Friday, September 22, 2023

“The first English children’s novel” and Its Arrival in America

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This month the Smithsonian Magazine website published V. M. Braganza’s article “The Revolutionary Influence of the First English Children’...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Informed Discussion of Peter Faneuil and His Legacy

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This month the Boston Globe published Brian MacQuarrie’s article , many months in the making, about Peter Faneuil, the Atlantic slave econo...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Preparing for the Battle Road Sestercentennial

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The staff at Minute Man National Historical Park is already planning for the Sestercentennial of the Battle and Lexington and Concord in 202...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

O’Brien on Loyalists via Old North, 21 Sept.

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On Thursday, 21 September, Old North Illuminated will host a virtual talk by G. Patrick O’Brien on “‘This Perilous Hour of Trial, Horror &am...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Taking a Scrap of History

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Earlier this month Independence National Historical Park shared the photo above on Facebook. That posting stated: This scrap of newspaper ...
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Sunday, September 17, 2023

The Case of the Adapted Anecdote

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Today is Constitution Day, declared to commemorate the date on which the delegates at the Constitutional Convention signed off on their wor...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

“A Sett of Controversial Discourses agreed upon by the Society”

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In October 1722, almost a year after being inoculated against smallpox , Ebenezer Turell found a new use for his notebook . He wrote out ...
Friday, September 15, 2023

“Argumentive dialogue concerning inoculation”

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The Telltale essays by Harvard College students in Ebenezer Turell ’s notebook come to a stop on 1 Nov 1721. In the preceding month, 411...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

Theophilus Evedropper and the Chair Lifters

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As I wrote yesterday , on 9 Sept 1721 a Harvard College student—quite possibly Ebenezer Turell —using the signature “Telltale” wrote a shor...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

“Essay’d on the following Saturdays”

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The Boston News-Letter was launched in 1704, the first ongoing newspaper in British North America. The Boston Gazette followed in 1719. ...
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