Boston 1775

Back in 2017 I looked into a sketch titled “The Young Provincial” and published in The Token, for 1830 . An edition of the collected w...

I’ve been discussing the Rev. W. B. O. Peabody’s sketch “The Young Provincial,” published in 1829, and Jacob Frost ’s 1832 claim for a pen...

The idea that Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote “The Young Provincial,” the sketch I quoted yesterday from The Token, for 1830 , wasn’t a bad gue...

At the end of 1829 the writer and editor Samuel G. Goodrich published an anthology of short stories and literary sketches by various autho...

On 13 Sept 1832, an eighty-year-old man from Norway, Maine , named Jacob Frost signed an affidavit describing his experiences during the R...