Boston 1775

Where were Caleb Wheaton, Sr. ’s sons when the Revolutionary War began in April 1775? Wheaton made his home on a substantial riverside plo...

The story of Joseph Wheaton ’s defection from his Loyalist family to the Continental Army was passed down in both branches of the divided ...

Winthrop Sargent, Sr. ’s list of civilian men captured on the Elizabeth on 2 Apr 1776 and brought into Gloucester included (in his unique ...

In yesterday’s discussion of how the Massachusetts legislature dealt with Loyalists captured on the Elizabeth in April 1776, I left out ...

A lot of the correspondence that followed the Continental capture of the Elizabeth in April 1776 involved money. First, there was the cos...

It didn’t take long for New England Patriots to realize that Cdre. John Manley ’s capture of the Elizabeth on 2 April 1776 was a big deal. ...

As Crean Brush was seizing linen and woolens for the British military in March 1776, some of the wealthy merchants who owned that cloth com...

Samuel Austin , quoted yesterday , wasn’t the only Boston merchant to complain about how Crean Brush had confiscated cloth in March 1776. ...

As quoted back here , on 10 Mar 1776 Gen. William Howe authorized Crean Brush to seize linen and woolen goods inside Boston to ensure they...

To help him collect goods from Bostonians, loyal and otherwise, Crean Brush hired four men. I can’t tell whether Brush assembled this tea...

When Crean Brush came to him after confiscating Cyrus Baldwin ’s goods in March 1776, Gen. William Howe was looking ahead to the next phas...

As it became clear that the British military was about to pull out of Boston , Crean Brush moved to seize more property from absent townsp...

Yesterday’s post reported that among the people captured aboard the evacuation ship Elizabeth in April 1776 was Crean Brush . Eric Wis...

When Cdre. John Manley captured the brigantine Elizabeth , evacuating from Boston , in April 1776, he saw that he’d hooked an important—and...