▼
Showing posts with label Francis Bernard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Francis Bernard. Show all posts
Saturday, November 15, 2025

The Coroners of Suffolk County, 1747–1774

›
Early this month I started to discuss the office of coroner in pre-Revolutionary Boston. Then came Pope Night , followed by postings about ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

“Putting all matters of politicks out of view”?

›
Esther Quincy married Jonathan Sewall in January 1764, after a courtship of more than four years. She was the daughter of the Boston mer...
Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Richard Draper’s “Report of these Images”

›
As long as I’m discussing nomenclature for Boston’s political groups in the 1760s, I’ll tackle “the Union Club.” America’s first public, ...
Friday, June 07, 2024

“The Remains of Captain Daniel Malcom”

›
On Thursday, 26 Oct 1769, the Boston News-Letter announced: On Monday last departed this Life, Capt. DANIEL MALCOM , of this Town, Merchan...
Tuesday, June 04, 2024

Capt. Daniel Malcom, Brandy, Wine, and Punch

›
In the mid-1760s, while John Malcom was trading out of Québec , his younger brother Daniel Malcom was becoming prominent in Boston. On 2...
Friday, February 23, 2024

“Becoming dependent for their Salaries upon their Crown”

›
The dispute that led to colonial Massachusetts’s second impeachment action started with the Townshend Acts of 1767. Parliament imposed n...
Saturday, April 01, 2023

“The present uncomfortable state of the College”

›
Yesterday’s posting left the Harvard College community on 26 Sept 1766 roiled with controversy over butter. Or rather, the undergraduate...
Monday, August 02, 2021

Podcast Episodes to Search Out

›
I subscribe to several podcasts dedicated to Revolutionary history (broadly defined). I also listen to several podcasts that range more wi...
Friday, March 12, 2021

“The same Spirit spreads like a Contagion”

›
I’m returning to the second Boston Tea Party and the other events of March 1774. And who better to ease us into that mindset than John Adam...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

“A determination to discourage a faithful Servant of the Crown”

›
For acting governor Thomas Hutchinson , the dispute between his Council and the provincial secretary Andrew Oliver was yet one more head...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

The Massachusetts Council Investigates Itself

›
Yesterday we left off as provincial secretary Andrew Oliver ’s sworn statement about what members of the Massachusetts Council had said o...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

“The principal cause of the Mobbish turn in this Town”?

›
Early this month I recounted some moments in the mid-1700s when the royal governors of Massachusetts found themselves stymied by crowds p...
Friday, June 05, 2020

“The Militia…would never act against the Rioters”

›
In August 1765, eighteen years after Gov. William Shirley struggled to deal with anti-impressment riots , his successor Francis Bernard ...
Monday, June 01, 2020

“The Illegality of holding the Court in any other Town than Boston”?

›
On 1 June 1770, the Massachusetts house continued its discussion with acting governor Thomas Hutchinson about why the legislature was mee...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Preparing for the Political Season to Reopen

›
Back in May 1768, the Massachusetts General Court added seven Whig House members involved in the Circular Letter dispute to the Council ...
Friday, May 08, 2020

After James Otis “behaved very madly’

›
On 8 May 1770, 250 years ago today , Bostonians gathered for one of their annual town meetings . Every March, the white men of the town ...
2 comments:
Wednesday, May 06, 2020

“The Commissioners seemd rather inclined to Ad”

›
The Colonial Society of Massachusetts ’s publication of the correspondence of Francis Bernard and Thomas Hutchinson , royal governor and ...