Boston 1775

Last month the Times Observer newspaper of Warren, Pennsylvania, reported on an exhibit at the local historical society that included a le...

Last month Jake Sconyers devoted an episode of his HUB History podcast to the long history of King’s Chapel, from Gov. Edmund Andros’s seiz...

Returning to Dr. Benjamin Church ’s intelligence report dated 24 Sept 1775, he had a couple more things to say about the Continental Army ’...

One of my big unanswered questions about the Battle of Lexington and Concord on 19 Apr 1775 is why the provincial forces didn’t deploy any...

On 27 Aug 1775, John Adams visited the College of New Jersey in Princeton . He arrived in town about noon, checking into Jacob Hyer’s tav...

I was tracing the political career of John Pigeon , a Boston merchant who retired to Newton a few years before the Revolution. In the ear...

As I wrote yesterday , in 1768 the Boston merchant and insurance broker John Pigeon retired to a farm estate in Newton . But in 1773, as ...

John Pigeon (1725-1800) was a prominent Boston merchant specializing in dry goods, meaning cloth and clothing . Pigeon married Jane Duma...