Boston 1775

Another document related to the Boston Massacre in the collections of the Boston Public Library is catalogued as “Examination and answers o...

After being acquitted of murder at the Boston Massacre on 5 Dec 1770, Cpl. William Wemys and five private soldiers “went their Way thro’ ...

On 12 Dec 1770, 250 years ago today , the third trial for the Boston Massacre began. This is the trial that later generations of Bostoni...

Back on 27 March , I described how a Suffolk County grand jury indicted four civilians for murder in the Boston Massacre . As acting gov...

As I recounted back here , the Suffolk County grand jury inquiring into the Boston Massacre took a lot of testimony about whether people ...

Even as the royal army and the town of Boston took steps to respond to the Boston Massacre in March 1770, a third institution was moving,...

After young Charles Bourgate accused both his master, Edward Manwaring , and his master’s alibi witness, John Munro , of participating in...

An anonymous letter now part of the Sparks Manuscripts at Harvard relates what happened when Justice Richard Dana (shown here) gave Cust...

Soon after Charles Bourgate reaffirmed his earlier story of being made to shoot down at the crowd during the Boston Massacre , the Bosto...

When we left Charles Bourgate , 250 years ago, the young French servant was locked up in the Boston jail for “profane Swearing.” Charl...

Even as some Bostonians crowded Faneuil Hall on 6 Mar 1770 to report threatening encounters with British soldiers, the young French ser...

Today, 5 March, is the Sestercentennial anniversary of the Boston Massacre . I’ve written a lot about the Massacre over the years, includ...

Most people who follow early American history know that after the Boston Massacre the British soldiers were put on trial for murder. Peo...

Charles Bourgate (whose name was also rendered as Charles Bourgat, Charles Bourgatte, and even Charlotte Bourgatte) was yet another youth c...