Boston 1775

As I related yesterday , in July 1776 John Adams arranged for Elbridge Gerry to carry a pound of green tea home to Abigail , as long as ...

Among the documents in the Samuel Adams Papers at the New York Public Library is a letter from the politician ’s second wife, the former El...

This is Samuel Adams . In 1773 he was fifty-one years old. His father had been a selectman , merchant, and church deacon. He had gone to Har...

Though Samuel Adams was cautious about pushing for the abolition of slavery as a politician, as I discussed yesterday , he seems to have b...

Yesterday I quoted Samuel Adams ’s descendant William V. Wells on an African-American woman named Surry , who came to the second Elizabeth A...

William V. Wells’s The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams , published by Little, Brown in three volumes in 1865, offers this descripti...

On 13 Apr 1772, Samuel Adams wrote to his friend James Warren , a merchant in Plymouth (shown at left): I am much obligd for your Care in p...