Boston 1775

On 4 Apr 1756, Trinity Church in Boston recorded the baptism of “Benjamin Davis, Son of Benj. & [blank].” Benjamin, Jr.’s mother was ...

In Lt. William Browne ’s deposition about the Boston Massacre , quoted yesterday , The senior officer in the 14th Regiment that he referred ...

The first witness in the trial of Capt. Thomas Preston for the Boston Massacre was a barber’s apprentice named Edward Garrick . He testi...

In 1770, 28 October was a Sunday—the Sunday right in the middle of Capt. Thomas Preston ’s trial for murder. The fact that this criminal t...

Before departing this Massacre season, I want to call attention to Farah Peterson’s thought-provoking article in The American Scholar tit...

This week the history painter Don Troiani unveiled his depiction of the Boston Massacre . Troiani is known for his careful research, whic...

Yesterday I described how Jane Crothers, an eyewitness to the Boston Massacre , married Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse of the 14th Regiment later in...

Bartholomew and Abigail Green had a number of children, some of whom lived in the Customs House on King Street with them in 1770. Among th...

On 24 Mar 1770, five days after a draft of Boston’s report on the Massacre was submitted to the town meeting , justices of the peace John Ru...

For Liberty is an ironic title for Timothy Decker’s picture book about the Boston Massacre , published last year by Calkins Creek. It portr...

A Boston 1775 reader asked me about my article “The Wigmaker’s Boy and the Boston Massacre,” which appeared in this issue of AppleSeeds m...

I’ve decided to make this “Lost Youth Week” at Boston 1775 , talking about some young people in Revolutionary Boston whom I’d really, reall...

As night fell on the 5th of March, 1770, small groups of British soldiers and Boston workers resumed the fights of the previous week. These ...

Though soldiers and locals had brawled in Boston on the 2nd and 3rd of March , the town was quiet on the 4th. After all, it was the Sabbath...