Boston 1775

Soon after Capt. John Manley guided the Hancock , Boston , American Tartar , and eight other ships out of Boston harbor in May 1777, the pr...

When, last September , I left Dr. Samuel Curtis of Marlborough , his wife Lydia and their two babies had all died in December 1774. Lyd...

Yesterday I noted how in early 1776 the Rhode Island legislature appointed Col. Henry Babcock , a veteran of the French & Indian War, ...