Boston 1775

One month after he’d decided to sail out of Boston with his goods, the brazier William Jackson was locked up in the town jail, suspected ...

Yesterday we left William Jackson on the road from Portsmouth, New Hampshire , to Boston, having reached the town of Newburyport on 11 Apr...

It didn’t take long for New England Patriots to realize that Cdre. John Manley ’s capture of the Elizabeth on 2 April 1776 was a big deal. ...

On Friday, 18 August, the American Revolution Institute will host one of its “Lunch Bite” seminars , looking at a copy of Catharine Macaulay...

On 12 Nov 1770, after receiving word that Capt. Thomas Preston had been found innocent of the Boston Massacre , Gen. Thomas Gage wrote to...

In early October 1775, Nathaniel Balch the hatter left London and sailed back home to America. On 23 December, the Providence Gazette ...

I’ve long puzzled over why hatter Nathaniel Balch chose to sail to Britain in May 1775, a month after war broke out in Massachusetts. B...

In discussing Charles Adams ’s final semester at Harvard, I must now introduce the setting of the Blue Anchor Tavern in Cambridge . Loca...

On 22 Nov 1775, the Rev. Isaac Mansfield, Jr., a Continental Army chaplain, preached a Thanksgiving sermon in the camp at Roxbury . He leve...

For the past two days I quoted responses to the Battle of Bunker Hill from people who were on their best behavior . But not everyone react...