Boston 1775

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...

Last week I recounted the Loyalist evacuation of Boston as tragedy. This week I’m retelling it as farce. Capt. John Manley was the fir...

Yesterday I started to tell the story of how Jolley Allen evacuated Boston with the British fleet in March 1776—or tried to. Quoting All...

Not everyone who evacuated Boston in March 1776 actually got to Halifax . Back on 11 March, the British-born merchant Jolley Allen rente...

Capt.-Lt. Archibald Robertson , British military engineer, sailed out of Boston harbor on 25 Mar 1776. Robertson’s ship was an army trans...

Here’s an example of how Gen. John Burgoyne ’s diary of the late 1775, just brought to light, offers new detail on life inside besieged Bost...

Since I mentioned Gen. John Burgoyne a few days back (even if Robert Woolf didn’t), that gives me a reason to point to the big Burgoyne ...