Boston 1775

Here’s more from the diary of the Rev. David Avery , who as chaplain accompanied a regiment to Chelsea in the wake of the fight over Hog ...

The Rev. David Avery of Gageborough (Windsor) came to the siege of Boston as chaplain for Col. John Paterson ’s regiment from western Ma...

The Rev. David Avery identified the fellow provincial soldier who accidentally shot Daniel Phelps as “Mr. —— Yale of Col. [John] Patters...

Yesterday I quoted a nineteenth-century account of how Daniel Phelps of Stockbridge was accidentally shot during a drill by a reckless f...