Boston 1775

Thomas Newell ’s diary makes clear that he opposed Parliament ’s tea tax in 1773, as most Bostonians did. On 2 December, for instance, he wr...

One of my favorite accounts of the Boston Tea Party comes from the merchant John Andrews. He cultivated a sense of detached irony in his l...

Prof. Wendy Raphael Roberts of the University of Albany has announced the discovery of a previously unknown poem by Phillis Wheatley , “On t...

Francis S. Drake’s Tea Leaves (1884) is our source for Joseph M. Lovering ’s tale of the Boston Tea Party —as passed on by admiring neighbo...

On the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party I’m sharing one of the more unusual eyewitness accounts of the event. This text was published ...

Here’s another early insider’s account of the Boston Tea Party —made public only fifty-eight years after the event. This account appeare...

Yesterday I quoted Benjamin Simpson ’s account of the Boston Tea Party , as he reportedly wrote it in 1828 and as it was published in 1830...

On 10 Nov 1828, a prosperous farmer in Saco, Maine , wrote out his recollections of an event in Boston fifty-five years earlier: Destructi...

Last week I cited a report about the November-December 1773 public meetings inside the Old South Meeting-House . Labeled “Proceedings of Y...

On this anniversary of the Boston Tea Party , I’m looking at the question of what Josiah Quincy, Jr. , said in the Old South Meeting-House...

At All Things Liberty: The Journal of the American Revolution , Elizabeth M. Covart has contributed a series of articles on the interpret...

It’s clearly documented that Thompson Maxwell (1742-1831) spent time in the colonial army at the end of the French and Indian War, in the C...