Boston 1775

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

Samuel Madden was born in Dublin in 1686. His father was a physician , and his mother was part of the prominent Molyneux family. Even bef...

This month’s research topics took me to this page at the History of Parliament site about the fabled “Monks of Medmenham Abbey.” John Wil...

I subscribe to several podcasts dedicated to Revolutionary history (broadly defined). I also listen to several podcasts that range more wi...

This evening at 5:00 P.M., the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture is hosting an online workship titled “Making Hist...

Loyalist John Mein wrote one of his “Sagittarius” essays in response to John Hancock ’s 1774 oration on the anniversary of the Boston Ma...

Among the documents made public in the Georgian Papers Programme is a little booklet , bound with red string, titled “Instructions for my ...

The image above was the only signature of John Hancock that I was studying last night. In the spirit of that activity, I’m pointing to ...

On 28 May 1754, Lt. Col. George Washington of Virginia was involved in an embarrassing skirmish that helped to spark the global conflict ca...

George II died on 25 Oct 1760, at the age of seventy-seven. That was a long life, especially in the eighteenth century, but the king’s death...