Boston 1775

New England’s Puritan heritage made those colonies less than welcoming for the Church of England. There was an Anglican missionary organiz...

As I wrote yesterday , the marriage of Henry Knox and Lucy Flucker appears on the records of King’s Chapel, Boston’s most upper-class Angl...

By 12 Mar 1776, the British military’s evacuation of Boston was dissolving into chaos in the eyes of merchant John Rowe , and the cannon w...

Yesterday I followed Sarah Gore and the uncle who raised her, the Rev. Henry Caner , from Boston to London after the end of the siege of B...

This story came up (in my head at least) during yesterday’s online presentation from King’s Chapel about how the Revolution affected membe...

When the Rev. Richard Mosley arrived in Pomfret, Connecticut , in September 1771, asking about the need for an Anglican minister, Godfrey M...

Earlier this fall, Boston 1775 reader David Churchill Barrow asked me what Pope Night was like in Boston in 1770, 250 years ago today. A...

On Thursday, 5 December, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and King’s Chapel will celebrate the publication of The Colonial Records ...

On Thursday, 5 April, King’s Chapel will host a talk by Samuel A. Forman on “Dr. Joseph Warren and King’s Chapel—242nd Anniversary of Wa...

Ebenezer Thompson was born in West Haven, Connecticut , in 1712. He graduated from Yale College in 1733, married the following March, and...