Boston 1775

Once his ship was safely clear of Salem harbor, Josiah Quincy, Jr., must have come up to enjoy the sea air. One of the benefits of his voyag...

Last month Heather Wilson wrote on the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Beehive blog about a copybook written out by Elizabeth Heath (17...

When we last peeked in on Malden during the siege of Boston , a British raiding party from Charlestown had crossed the Mystic River an...

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...

I’ve been writing about the Continental riflemen , and this is the anniversary of the British evacuation of Boston in 1776 . So here is a ri...

Nathaniel Goddard was born in 1767, son of a Brookline farmer who would serve as wagon-master of the Continental Army during the siege o...

Last month I wrote about how the Massachusetts Provincial Congress finally started commissioning infantry officers for its army (as oppo...

Back in April, I quoted from the diary of John Goddard (1730-1816) of Brookline , recording how he carted military supplies out to Conco...

On 24 Febr 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress ’s Committee of Safety and Committee on Supplies voted to procure these items and s...

This is the ballroom at Anderson House, the headquarters of the Society of the Cincinnati in Washington, D.C. It’s the largest room of the ...

Last week Matt Rocheleau reported for Boston.com on the state government’s plan to restore a colonial milestone along Harvard Avenue in A...

From Daniel McCurtin’s “Journal of the Times at the Siege of Boston Since Our Arrival at Cambridge, near Boston,” printed in Papers Chiefly ...