Boston 1775

Alongside Lt. Thomas Hawkshaw ’s declaration of what he’d said about the first shots of the war, quoted yesterday , Lt. Col. William Walcott...

During the British army withdrawal on 19 Apr 1775, Lt. Thomas Hawkshaw of the 5th Regiment was shot in the side of his face. As recorded...

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

I started this month reviewing the events of early March 1774: the return of the Massachusetts Spy , the death of Lt. Gov. Andrew Oliver (s...

Here’s another controversy from 1770 that I didn’t note on the exact 250th anniversaries of its notable dates since I had other topics at h...

In 1933, the New London County Historical Society published the second volume of its collections, titled Connecticut’s Naval Office at New L...

The 21 Mar 1760 Boston News-Letter reported two significant fires in Boston in the preceding week and then proceeded to this hastily com...

Jacob Bailey (1731-1808) graduated from Harvard College in 1755, ranked at the bottom of his class in social rank. He chose to go into the...

Like the Stamp Act itself, Parliament ’s repeal of the Stamp Act was no surprise. The measure was debated in London for months, and colon...

The Bostonian Society’s online exhibit of “From Baby Caps to Mourning Rings: The Material Culture of Boston’s Eighteenth Century Girls and W...

Yesterday I quoted Deacon Timothy Newell ’s first response to demands that he turn over the key to the Brattle Street Meeting-House to a gr...

One of the liveliest entries in John Adams's pre-Revolutionary diaries came on Tuesday, 27 Oct 1772, when his legal consultation with Ja...

After last week's posting about war games on Boston Common , Alfred F. Young wrote to ask, “Do you have any idea of how many militia co...