Boston 1775

History, analysis, and unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution in New England.

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Showing posts with label Francis Green. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Francis Green. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 03, 2024

For and Against the Committee of Correspondence

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During Boston’s town meeting session on 27 June 1774, town clerk William Cooper didn’t record who spoke. But the merchant John Rowe did...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

“Arms (deliver’d by the Inhabitants in April 1775)”

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On 27 Apr 1775, Boston’s selectmen and designated committee members delivered to the royal governor, Gen. Thomas Gage , “the return made to...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

“What an unparallel’d Stock of Assurance & Self-Confidence”

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In the fall of 1769, Boston’s non-importation controversy heated up. The town’s merchants, supported and pushed by the radical Whigs, had...
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