Boston 1775

In October 1776, as recounted here and here , John Hill ’s wife Elizabeth (?) and his daughter were stopped at New London and found to be...

In the fall of 1777, as recounted yesterday , John Hill and his family were released from captivity in Boston as part of a prisoner exchang...

We left John Hill , his wife Elizabeth (?), and his daughter in the Boston jail in February 1777, suspected of “being Enemical to the Sta...

Yesterday I illustrated a posting that quoted Boston jailer Joseph Otis ’s list of prisoners with a small image of such a list. However, ...

On 18 Feb 1777, deputy jailer Joseph Otis wrote down “A List of Prisoners in Boston Goal,” transcribed and published by the Colonial Societ...

As I quoted back here , on 12 Oct 1776 the New London committee of correspondence detected two women trying to carry secret letters into ...

I’ve been hunting for the names of John Hill ’s wife and daughter in 1776. According to the profile of Hill at the Loyalist Directory , hi...

As recounted yesterday, on 25 Apr 1776 the Massachusetts General Court issued a resolve to catch John Hill , an Irish-born Loyalist accuse...

John Hill was yet another of the Loyalists captured aboard the brig Elizabeth . [I feel like I’m never getting away! Then again, that’...

One month after he’d decided to sail out of Boston with his goods, the brazier William Jackson was locked up in the town jail, suspected ...

In April 1776, Watertown was the seat of Massachusetts’s government. Though people could now go into Boston, that town was still reeling ...

Yesterday we left William Jackson on the road from Portsmouth, New Hampshire , to Boston, having reached the town of Newburyport on 11 Apr...

When I started to look at the Continental capture of the brig Elizabeth in early April 1776, I didn’t expect to find so much drama and mys...

On 13 Apr 1776, the Massachusetts General Court decided that “ Caleb Wheaton and others [well, other men ], who were taken aboard the brig...