Boston 1775

Boston’s first tea crisis lasted two months. The town heard about East India Company tea coming to certain merchants by 18 October, when t...

As shown yesterday , the Boston Whigs played down the crowd violence against Richard Clarke and other tea consignees in early November 1...

On the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party I’m sharing one of the more unusual eyewitness accounts of the event. This text was published ...

Yesterday I quoted Benjamin Simpson ’s account of the Boston Tea Party , as he reportedly wrote it in 1828 and as it was published in 1830...

Yesterday I introduced Asa Copeland as a “young lad” apprenticed to the Boston carpenter Amos Thayer . He opened his master’s door to ...

Some of the men who destroyed the East India Company ’s tea in Boston harbor on 16 Dec 1773 were disguised. Some were not, according to par...

On Thursday, 8 December, I’ll speak at the Newport Historical Society on the topic “The Launch of Rhode Island’s Revolutionary Artillery.”...

The New-York Historical Society is featuring what I expect is a small but thorough exhibit on Ebenezer Stevens , a lieutenant colonel in ...

An email from a Boston 1775 reader after yesterday’s posting made me look into Henry Knox ’s actions during the tea crisis of 1773. Tha...

As I quoted two days ago , in 1855 Washington Irving wrote about Gen. Horatio Gates this way: Horace Walpole , whose Christian name he bore...

From the collection of the Metropolitian Museum of Art in New York: This extraordinary punchbowl features a remarkably faithful replica of...

A while back I quoted how Continental artillery officer John Crane was wounded in the foot. Boston 1775 reader Scott Crane got me interest...

Back in February I spent an afternoon in the New York Public Library, a trip that produced some material on the legend of George Washingto...