Boston 1775

Samuel Madden was born in Dublin in 1686. His father was a physician , and his mother was part of the prominent Molyneux family. Even bef...

When I was writing about Lt. Thomas Hawkshaw earlier this month, I kept wishing I had more individual information about him, and I kept bei...

Esther Forbes’s Johnny Tremain remains the foremost American novel on the Revolution, its coming-of-age story for the title character mirr...

The Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia is planning a symposium on the topic “Finance and...

Here’s another account of anti-epidemic measures from the Adams family papers, this one a 17 Apr 1764 letter from John Adams to his fiancé...

On 8 Sept 1775, 250 years ago today , Abigail Adams had serious news for her husband John , who was heading back to the Continental Congre...

Alongside Lt. Thomas Hawkshaw ’s declaration of what he’d said about the first shots of the war, quoted yesterday , Lt. Col. William Walcott...

On 23 Apr 1775, Lt. Thomas Hawkshaw of the 5th Regiment was lying near death. He’d been shot through the throat during the Battle of Lexi...

During the British army withdrawal on 19 Apr 1775, Lt. Thomas Hawkshaw of the 5th Regiment was shot in the side of his face. As recorded...

In 1805, Henry St. John Neale published the second edition of his Chirurgical Institutes, Drawn from Practice, on the Knowledge and Treatmen...

Lt. Thomas Hawkshaw went out of Boston with his soldiers in the 5th Regiment of Foot on 19 Apr 1775. He came back wounded. The always he...

Last week I wrote about some letters entrusted to Dr. Benjamin Church on 21–22 Apr 1775 which ended up in the files of Gen. Thomas Gage . ...

Here are a couple of new online resources exploring aspects of the first months of the Revolutionary War in New England. The Longfellow Ho...

Henry Marchant (1741–1796, shown here) was a rising young lawyer in Rhode Island . Born on Martha’s Vineyard , Marchant grew up in Newpo...