Boston 1775

On Friday, 6 November, the Concord Museum will host Joanne Freeman, the Alan Boles, Class of 1929 Professor of History at Yale. The event ...

As I recounted yesterday , as 1776 began the Massachusetts General Court was in the process of replacing Thomas Cushing as a Continental ...

Soon after Thomas Cushing read James Warren ’s letter sneering at him and Robert Treat Paine , as discussed back here , he received more b...

Back in September 2025 , I passed on news of how a Trump adherent had tried to gain control of the messaging of America250, the congressiona...

On Friday, 30 October, Minute Man National Historical Park will present a program called “Care for the Wounded and the Dead.” The event d...

Back in July Boston 1775 passed on how the federal government installed new signs at the President’s House site in Philadelphia during the...

On 28 Oct 1776, 250 years ago today, the Continental Army had another face-off against the Crown. This time the action happened north of Ma...

As I quoted yesterday , Continental Congress delegate Robert Treat Paine felt insulted about what James Warren had written about him in D...

In December 1775, a courier brought Continental Congress delegate Thomas Cushing a letter from James Warren , his successor as speaker of ...

When Massachusetts’s delegation arrived at the First Continental Congress in 1774, Thomas Cushing was at its head. Cushing had served as...

In April 1775, John Hancock and Samuel Adams were staying together at the parsonage in Lexington , where Hancock had spent some of his ch...

Yesterday I described how in May 1772 Gov. Thomas Hutchinson reversed the pattern of previous years and accepted John Hancock ’s election ...

John Hancock was elected to three important positions in the spring of 1772. In April, fellow members of the Company of Cadets unanimous...

In 1860 the New England Historical and Genealogical Register published the text of an undated document headed “Copy of original list of sub...