Boston 1775

In a letter to the Rev. Dr. Jeremy Belknap , Paul Revere recalled a dramatic moment on 21 Apr 1775: The Friday evening after [the Battle o...

In defending himself against the Crown’s charge of seditious libel in July 1777, the Rev. John Horne wanted to show it was reasonable of hi...

The Rev. John Horne (later John Horne Tooke ) was one of Britain’s political radicals in the 1770s. He started the decade as a minister a...

One of my big unanswered questions about the Battle of Lexington and Concord on 19 Apr 1775 is why the provincial forces didn’t deploy any...

Reuben Brown rode from Concord to Lexington early on the morning of 19 Apr 1775, scouting the road at the request of his neighbors. H...

When provincial militia companies fired at the British soldiers holding the North Bridge in Concord , they wounded four army officers: Lt...

Reuben Brown was born in Sudbury in 1748. In 1770, soon after coming of age, he moved to Concord and established himself as a saddler. Th...

As I quoted two days ago , in the spring of 1775 five British soldiers testified to seeing one of their comrades with “the Skin over his ...

Yesterday I quoted the part of “The White Horseman,” the earliest known story about Hezekiah Wyman on 19 Apr 1775, which makes it also the...

After the Battle of Bunker Hill , Lt. Edward Thoroton Gould sailed for England. He had been wounded in the fighting at Concord and held pr...

John Horne (1736-1812; he added the surname Tooke in 1782; color portrait here ) was a British political activist. He believed in a Bill of...

Among the accounts of the action at Lexington and Concord on 19 Apr 1775 collected by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress , one of the m...