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Showing posts with label James Bowdoin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Bowdoin. Show all posts
Saturday, July 18, 2026

“To hear the proclamation for independance read and proclamed”

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On 18 July 1776, 250 years ago today , the Declaration of Independence was officially proclaimed in Massachusetts. People had already hea...
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Thursday, December 12, 2024

“You found the money and Sam Adams the brains”

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For the first years of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts continued to operate on the basis of its provincial charter. The General Court...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

“You justly observe that he has a difficult card to play”

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Yesterday I started quoting from Loyalist merchant Richard Lechmere ’s 22 May 1775 letter about the beginning of the Revolutionary War, as...
Wednesday, August 07, 2024

“He had had Hopes of proceeding with them to the Congress”

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As I wrote yesterday , in June 1774 the Massachusetts General Court put James Bowdoin (shown here, as a younger man) atop its list of dele...
Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Hancock and the First Continental Congress

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Sometime in early June 1774, as I discussed yesterday , John Hancock became sick . That month he was not in evidence at Salem during the...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

When Adams Chaired the Boston Town Meeting

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Friday, 17 June 1774, turned out to be the last day the Massachusetts assembly met under the Crown. Before Gov. Thomas Gage shut them do...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

“The Affair of delivering up the Arms”

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On 23 Apr 1775, as recounted yesterday , the Boston town meeting approved an arrangement with Gen. Thomas Gage for people to store their w...
Saturday, July 15, 2023

“Upon the inhabitants in general lodging their arms in Faneuil-hall”

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On 22 Apr 1775, with the Massachusetts militia besieging the king’s soldiers inside Boston, many townspeople wanted to get out of the way....
Friday, July 14, 2023

Boston’s Town Meeting on the Fourth Day of the War

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As quoted yesterday, on 3 Apr 1775 the Boston town meeting voted to continue their work by adjournment on 17 April. By that date, town cl...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Early American Science in Kansas City

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The Linda Hall Library in Kansas City is featuring a small but mighty display of publications titled “Promoting Useful Knowledge: The Ameri...
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Friday, March 10, 2023

The Captain Who Hosted Gen. Washington in Boston

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In looking for clues about the ship captain who told Gen. George Washington that the British military was preparing to leave in March 1776,...
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

“Came to Head Quarters and gave the following Intelligence”

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After Continental troops moved onto Dorchester heights on the night of 4–5 March 1776, Gen. George Washington and his commanders waited a...
Monday, March 06, 2023

“I hear that General How said…”

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For decades authors have quoted Gen. William Howe seeing the Continental fortifications on Dorchester heights and remarking: “These fello...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

“A determination to discourage a faithful Servant of the Crown”

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For acting governor Thomas Hutchinson , the dispute between his Council and the provincial secretary Andrew Oliver was yet one more head...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

“The breach of a most essential privilege of this Board”

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On 12 Oct 1770, eight members of the Massachusetts Council delivered their depositions about what had happened on 6 March, the day after th...
Sunday, August 09, 2020

The Life and Death of Nathaniel Rogers

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Nathaniel Rogers was born in Boston in 1737. His mother was a sister of Thomas Hutchinson , who later that year was chosen to be both a s...
Monday, June 01, 2020

“The Illegality of holding the Court in any other Town than Boston”?

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On 1 June 1770, the Massachusetts house continued its discussion with acting governor Thomas Hutchinson about why the legislature was mee...