Boston 1775

The Journal of the American Revolution just published Tim Abbott’s article about Lt. Col. Thomas Williams, Jr. (1746–1776), of Stockbridge ...

Sherman Lohnes left a helpful comment on these lines in yesterday’s posting about Elisha Porter : He later served in the Saratoga campaign...

As I recounted this past week, in the summer of 1774 Elisha Porter of Hadley traveled to New York , Providence , and at least some way to ...

On 11 Aug 1775, Elisha Porter returned to Gen. George Washington ’s headquarters with a letter from Rhode Island governor Nicholas Cooke ,...

Yesterday I started to profile Elisha Porter , as of July 1775 Hadley ’s representative in the Massachusetts General Court and militia co...

I’ve been writing about Gen. George Washington ’s wish to obtain gunpowder from Bermuda in August 1775. Today I’ll focus on one man invo...

As I quoted back here , on 3 Aug 1775 Gen. George Washington wrote to Gov. Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island asking him to send all availabl...

Here’s a story I ran across in preparing my History Camp Boston 2024 presentation on the British colonies beyond the thirteen represented a...

Capt. Moses Harvey ’s November 1775 advertisement (which I quoted Wednesday ) pointedly described five men who had deserted from his Conti...

Back in 2007, when I first wrote about Dr. Benjamin Church ’s intercepted letter into Boston, I said that among the men who volunteered to ...