Boston 1775

Today the city of Boston’s Department of Archaeology officially opens its new exhibit in Faneuil Hall , titled “Slavery in Boston.” The ...

The last installment of The Saga of the Brazen Head ended on 12 Sept 1735 with James Jackson drowning on a trip home from Maine . He le...

Yesterday I quoted a letter from William Molineux stating that in October 1768 he had agreed to rent buildings near the center of Boston ...

To prepare yesterday’s post I poked around in the evidence about Thomas Apthorp , who as a little boy appears to have lost his whizzer t...

Speaking of Boston archeology and Joseph M. Bagley (who’ll be speaking at Old South on 13 September ), I recently enjoyed looking through...

After Parliament enacted the Stamp Act in early 1765, Treasury Department officials asked London alderman Barlow Trecothick for recommend...

This is an image of Robert Feke ’s portrait of Grizzell Apthorp (1709-1796), made in the late 1740s. The original now belongs to the De Yo...