Boston 1775

Page 7 of the 8 May 1770 issue of Anthony Henry ’s Nova Scotia Chronicle was nearly entirely taken up with what looks like an extraordinar...

Last month David Morgan’s Inside Croydon website profiled a notable British naval figure who grew up in pre-Revolutionary Boston. Adm. Be...

I left William Story on his way to London in late 1771 bearing letters of reference from three major political players in Boston—from royal...

On 2 Oct 1771, the speaker of the Massachusetts House, Thomas Cushing , wrote a letter to that body’s lobbyist in London, Benjamin Frankl...

After his fight with James Otis, Jr. , became a big deal, Customs Commissioner John Robinson published his version of what had led up to ...

News that Parliament had repealed the Stamp Act arrived in Boston on 16 May 1766, as described yesterday. That quickly set off a public ...

A few days back I mentioned William Alexander Duer ’s New-York as it Was, During the Latter Part of the Last Century , published in 1849....