Boston 1775

The latest episode of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s podcast , The Object of History, is titled “Who Were the Bucks of America?” T...

When I started looking at Dr. John Jeffries ’s records of caring for young smallpox inoculatees in June 1775 , I hoped to find clues to his ...

According to James Otis ’s first biographer, William Tudor, Jr., after his brawl in the British Coffee-House in September 1769 he received...

James Lloyd was born in Boston in December 1769 and named after his grandfather, a respected physician. During the early 1770s, Dr. Lloyd...

The National Postal Museum has a webpage devoted to a 3 May 1775 letter from Henry Lloyd (1709-1795) to the New York merchants Oliver De...

After reading that Prof. John Winthrop took two recent Harvard graduates with him to Newfoundland in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus...

Popular demand indicates that it’s time for another series of CSI: Colonial Boston postings! Which is to say, Revolutionary people mucking ...

Before John Baker arrived from London and promoted the notion of specialized “surgeon dentists,” it looks like most Bostonians went to thei...

I'm traveling this weekend, so it seemed like a good time to discuss a notable journey by a Revolutionary Bostonian: Dr. John Jeffries...