Boston 1775

Yesterday’s posting brought the tale of the Deborah Champion letter up to the present, with versions of the text appearing on websites a...

In recent years, an increasing number of books have referred to Deborah Champion ’s experience carrying dispatches. Usually those are brie...

Yesterday I brought the story of the Deborah Champion letter into the 1970s, when the Bicentennial and the search for female heroes in Amer...

The dubious Deborah Champion letter I’ve been discussing for more than a week appears to be a product of the Colonial Revival and the fir...

Last week’s postings showed how descendants of Henry Champion , particularly women who had joined the Daughters of the American Revolution ,...

Over the past several days, I’ve been sharing the judgment of a group of researchers about the letter attributed to Deborah Champion of ...

One quality of the Deborah Champion letter, in either version , that struck everyone on the team of researchers that Joseph Warren biogr...

As I’ve described, a couple of months back Dr. Samuel Forman asked a bunch of Revolutionary-history contacts to assess a letter attributed...

This week I’m dealing out an analysis of the Deborah Champion letter about traveling from Connecticut to Massachusetts in October 1775. ...

I’ve been analyzing the text(s) of the Deborah Champion letter describing that young woman’s adventurous trip from Connecticut to Cambri...

Sam Forman has posted the two distinct surviving texts of Deborah Champion ’s letter about traveling to Boston during the siege to delive...

As I wrote yesterday, a 1912 book and a 1926 newspaper published the text of a letter in which young Deborah Champion described carrying ...

As I described yesterday, in the early 1900s the Deborah Champion Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which had been form...

In 1890, one year before The Champion Genealogy was published (as described yesterday), eighteen women and four men met in Washington, D....

This is the story of two documents that Sam Forman, author of the recent biography Dr. Joseph Warren , just posted on his website . This sto...