Boston 1775

Another way to look at the mobbing of John Malcolm in January 1774 is through the issue of the rule of law . At the end of her account o...

Yesterday I quoted the Massachusetts Spy report on the 25 Jan 1774 mob attack on John Malcolm . Here’s the Customs officer ’s own accou...

Yesterday we left Henry Hulton  under attack in his home in Brookline . Hulton, one of the five Commissioners of Customs for North Ame...

On 19 June 1770, 250 years ago today , political violence broke out again in greater Boston. With the 14th Regiment off at Castle Will...

I’ve focused on Charles Paxton as the chief target of Boston’s Pope Night processions in 1767, but two other new Commissioners of His Ma...

While I was at the Colonial Society of Massachusetts on Friday, I got a glimpse of its latest publication, Henry Hulton and the American Re...