Boston 1775

You may have noticed that yesterday’s posting about Bunker Hill differed from the two that preceded it. It didn’t include any nineteenth-...

In Historical Sketches of Andover (1880), Sarah Loring Bailey set down this story from the end of the Battle of Bunker Hill : A private...

On 19 April 1775, Thomas Poor was captain of a minute company from Andover . His sergeants were named John Chickering, Cyrus Marble, Phili...

On 19 Apr 1775, two companies of militiamen marched from Andover . Anticipating that the British column was headed to Concord , where the M...