Boston 1775

The 8 Sept 1845 Exeter News-Letter followed up the tale of James Cochran ’s captivity and return with remarks about his son—though it got t...

In the fall of 1845, as I described yesterday , New Hampshire newspapers published a pair of articles printing Cochran family lore, partic...

On 8 Sept 1845, the Exeter ( New Hampshire ) News-Letter and Rockingham Advertiser published an item signed “G.” and dated one week earlie...

As I wrote back here , John Cochran died in New Brunswick, Canada , in 1790. Though he’d been in ill health for years, he didn’t leave a ...

Ideally I would have quoted today’s documents earlier in this series about Sarah and John Cochran , but I hadn’t find them yet. As descri...

John and Sarah Cochran and their family arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick , in July 1783, as I recounted yesterday . Unlike Halifax, ...

As recounted yesterday, as of May 1777 John Cochran was on British-held Long Island in New York while his wife Sarah was still back home ...

On 3 Feb 1787, Sarah Cochran appeared before the Loyalists Commission in Saint John, New Brunswick . She described how her husband John ...

The Cochran family came to New England from northern Ireland. They settled in towns named to attract such migrants: Belfast in what would be...

As evening fell on 14 Dec 1774, New Hampshire militiamen finished their (first) raid on Fort William and Mary. They loaded over a hundre...

In 1770, New Hampshire governor John Wentworth appointed John Cochran (1730–1807) the official commander of Fort William and Mary in Port...

At the same time that Rhode Island ’s preparations for war included moving cannon from Newport to Providence , where they would be beyond ...