Boston 1775

On 7 Apr 1770, acting governor Thomas Hutchinson sent the Massachusetts General Court documents from Essex County justices of the peace de...

After his Gloucester neighbors mobbed him a second time, dragging him through town and tarring him in 1770, Jesse Seville stopped suing p...

After the attack on Jesse Saville ’s house on 7 Sept 1768, the Essex County authorities brought charges against eight men for assault, as Jo...

After a Gloucester crowd attacked Samuel Fellows and Jesse Saville in September 1768, both men went to work for His Majesty’s Customs Ser...

As I described yesterday , on 7 Sept 1768 the Gloucester merchant David Plumer directed a mob to a house in the Annisquam village, seekin...

Another event of 1770 that I neglected on its 250th anniversary this year was the mobbing of Jesse Saville. Or rather, the mobbing of Je...