Boston 1775

Along with the other reports on life inside besieged Boston that I discussed yesterday , on 17 Dec 1775 Capt. Richard Dodge reported this ...

Here’s a digital public history project to keep an eye on the coming years: Revolution Happened Here: Our Towns in the American Revolution ,...

Like Boston selectmen and deacon Timothy Newell , young merchant William Cheever was keen to note when the British authorities took over th...

It’s been a while since we checked in on John Morrison , the minister from Peterborough, New Hampshire , who marched with his town’s militia...

As winter approached, the British authorities inside besieged Boston tried to remove civilians who didn’t want to be there and would only ad...

Boston 1775 interrupts “Back to School Week” because of a crisis in the life of Timothy Newell . So far, when I’ve quoted Newell’s diary of...

As early as July 1770, when there was some sort of embarrassing incident at John Taggart ’s house (perhaps the incident recalled in yesterda...

I knew if I whined enough , someone would help me with sources on what exactly caused the Presbyterians of Peterborough, New Hampshire, to d...

Here’s another snatch of selectman Timothy Newell ’s diary of the siege of Boston . These entries came a week after the Battle of Bunker Hil...