Boston 1775

Four ships carrying British East India Company tea set out for Boston in 1773, but only three made it. The fourth was the William , capt...

Richard Draper published an issue of the Boston News-Letter on Friday, 26 Nov 1773. That in itself was notable. The News-Letter norma...

As I wrote back here , Jonathan Clarke (1744-1827) happened to be in London when Parliament enacted the Tea Act of 1773. He took advanta...

Richard Clarke (1711-1795, shown here in a detail from a family portrait by his son-in-law John Singleton Copley ) was one of Boston’s le...

Miniatures that Henry Pelham painted while he lived in America are very rare. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has one of Stephen...

Yesterday I suggested that when young people in Lyme, Connecticut , celebrated Independence Day in 1805 by toasting “The Tea Party,” they d...