Boston 1775

At the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Beehive blog , Nicole Breault has shared a sample of her research into the town watch of eighteent...

I promised more of the story of the Rev. John Martin , whom we left during the siege of Boston , preaching to the riflemen about how he’d...

As I described yesterday , the widow Wilmot Marsden based her plea for a federal pension on her memory of having married her husband Geor...

On 30 June 1775, two weeks after the Battle of Bunker Hill , the Rev. John Martin showed up at the house of the Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles of Ne...

I’ve been writing about the first casualty at Bunker Hill , and an anecdote which surfaced within fifty years of the battle of soldiers and...