Boston 1775

Yesterday I quoted a couple of press reports and a diary entry showing how Bostonians used the trope of “Indians” to discuss the men who d...

When Ebenezer Richardson fired his musket out of window of his house on 22 Feb 1770, as recounted yesterday , that gun was loaded with “...

By 22 Feb 1770, 250 years ago today , the anonymous informant reporting events in Boston to Customs Collector Joseph Harrison judged that ...

Yesterday I noted that on Thursday King’s Chapel will host a talk by Sam Forman on the funeral of Dr. Joseph Warren , which took place in...

A Boston 1775 reader named Barry kindly shared this image from from a Massachusetts commission for Edward Procter (1733-1811), as major of ...

After last week's posting about war games on Boston Common , Alfred F. Young wrote to ask, “Do you have any idea of how many militia co...