Boston 1775

Yesterday’s posting mentioned the Rev. Samuel Ashbow , a Baptist minister from the Mohegan community in Connecticut . A lot of informati...

Last month Alex Cain at Historical Nerdery rounded up four accounts from women who had all-too-close encounters with British troops durin...

When provincial militia companies fired at the British soldiers holding the North Bridge in Concord , they wounded four army officers: Lt...

In 22 Dec 1788, the Rev. David McClure wrote from Windsor, Connecticut , to one of his childhood friends from Boston: Dear Sir,—On the ...

Back in this post I mused on the mysteries of Scipio Moorhead , subject of Eric Slauter’s article “Looking for Scipio Moorhead” in Slave ...

Here’s another extract from the diary of the Rev. David McClure as the Revolutionary War began. The last installment left the minister ...

When we left the Rev. David McClure on the afternoon of 19 Apr 1775, he had just managed to get out of Boston to Roxbury by the neck. He...

The Rev. David McClure (1748-1820) was a native of Newport who grew up in Boston, a childhood friend of Henry Knox . McClure became a st...