Boston 1775

We left the Boston merchant Hopestill Capen locked up in the Boston jail in mid-1777. As a Sandemanian , Capen had stayed loyal to the B...

The Journal of the American Revolution regularly asks its contributors to share a short answer to an intriguing question—a favorite event or...

Yesterday I quoted some lines from Dr. Lemuel Hopkins ’s poem welcoming the year 1795 for the Connecticut Courant . Having praised Feder...

One of the sources John Tyler used for Smugglers and Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution (1986) are the ...

The 1896 history of King’s Chapel states of one Revolutionary-era member of the congregation: On the record of the death of Mr. John Box ...

The West End Museum has just opened a new exhibit on ropemaking in the area from the mid-1700s through the late 1800s. Less than a hundr...

This evening the Boston Area Early American History Seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society tackled the question of the cost of liv...

On 16 Feb 1836, an elderly printer in Bangor, Maine, named Peter Edes wrote to his grandson, Benjamin C. Edes, about events in Boston over ...