Boston 1775

Another of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s ongoing crowd-sourced transcription projects is Gen. William Heath’s manuscript diary . ...

David Bushnell ’s pioneering submarine didn’t do much damage to the Royal Navy in 1776, but the next year he came back with another inventi...

After his brother Ezra Bushnell fell ill, the inventor David Bushnell asked Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons to send three men who might be abl...

On 2 Feb 1776, David Bushnell journeyed from his workshop in Saybrook, Connecticut , to Lebanon to meet with Gov. Jonathan Trumbull and hi...

On 31 Aug 1775, the Rev. Benjamin Boardman , serving as a chaplain to Connecticut troops at the siege of Boston , wrote in his diary: I co...

Benjamin Boardman (1731–1802, shown here) graduated from Yale College in 1758, and two years later he became the minister in Middle Haddam...

Continental surgeon general Benjamin Church ’s secret letter to Maj. Edward Cane of the British army contained three warnings about attack...

Here’s another submarine design from the eighteenth century, this one from the artist and inventor Robert Fulton. Fulton was born in Lan...

This is a diagram of a submarine. It appeared in the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1747, illustrating an article titled “Description of a divin...

Boston 1775 has periodically passed on news about the final resting-place of some Royal Navy ships notable in the Revolution: H.M.S. S...

Over at the Journal of the American Revolution, there have been several articles of interest this year already. And not just because they ...

The Journal of the American Revolution has just concluded one of its popular group interviews, in which chief editor Todd Andrlik asks a ...

Yesterday I quoted Continental artillery colonel Jeduthan Baldwin ’s record that on 14 Dec 1775 he “went in the afternoon to Dotchester po...