Boston 1775

American Ancestors has just reissued James Henry Stark’s The Loyalists of Masssachusetts with a new foreword by me. I came across a copy ...

In the year after the Boston Massacre , Benjamin Burdick became the proprietor of the Freemason’s Arms tavern—better known as the Green Dra...

As recounted yesterday, immediately after the Boston Massacre , town watchman Benjamin Burdick went up to the soldiers and examined their...

For a new project I’ve been taking a deep dive into Benjamin Burdick ’s accounts of the Boston Massacre . Back in 2008 I pointed out that,...

Along with the other reports on life inside besieged Boston that I discussed yesterday , on 17 Dec 1775 Capt. Richard Dodge reported this ...

Capt. Richard Dodge was a Continental Army officer stationed in Chelsea during the second half of 1775. Like his regimental commander, Lt....

To mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence , Historic Trappe , the McNeil Center for Early American Studies , and Urs...

On 21 Aug 1778, Morgan Lewis (1754–1844), deputy quartermaster general of the Northern Department of the Continental Army , wrote out a lis...

On 16 May 1776, Gen. John Sullivan was at Albany, New York , trying to organize the remnants of the Continental Army ’s invasion of Canada ...

As quoted yesterday, on 29 Dec 1775 Col. Henry Knox wrote that Gen. Philip Schuyler “sent out his Waggon Master & other people to all ...

On Christmas 1775, Col. Henry Knox was making his way on horseback to Gen. Philip Schuyler ’s mansion in Albany, New York . Knox has jus...

As discussed back here , as of 13 Dec 1775 Col. Henry Knox and George Palmer of Stillwater, New York , had agreed on how to transport hea...

The Cambridge Room at the Cambridge Public Library has shared the video recording of last week’s panel discussion on “The First Commander R...

Bostonians had lots of public debates over what to do about the East India Company ’s tea , both before and after persons unidentified destr...