Boston 1775

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...

A couple of days ago I recounted how in March 1771 the Boston town meeting appointed the merchant William Whitwell and four other men to ...

Even as he served as royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson was writing the third volume of his history of the colony. Before...

Back in 2017, Boston 1775 shared a couple of postings about Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges , a celebrated swordsman and mus...

Gov. Thomas Hutchinson wasn’t the only chronicler to say Samuel Adams and John Hancock fell out over the question of how adamantly to pro...

John Hancock and Samuel Adams split in early 1772 over a few small issues—at least according to Gov. Thomas Hutchinson . The first invol...

The newly released first volume of The Papers of John Hancock , covering the years 1754–1769, doesn’t even have an index entry for Samuel A...

I dug into the early-1770s rift between John Hancock on Samuel Adams the old-fashioned way: By pulling books about those men off my shelv...

Among the intriguing questions posed to the A.I. program on the John Hancock Papers website is: “What did Hancock think about Sam ADams”? ...

Dr. Jeffrey M. Griffith’s John Hancock Papers website uses generative A.I. in a way I haven’t seen elsewhere: to answer questions about Han...