Boston 1775

On 17 Feb 1748, the Massachusetts house heard from a second committee on what to do about the Town House , the legislature’s usual meeting...

On Thursday, 25 January 1776, John Adams and Elbridge Gerry were on their way back to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The two...

Many websites and books identify Crispus Attucks ’s father as Prince Yongey (or Young or Jonar), based on the fact that Framingham rec...

Yesterday I quoted Samuel Adams ’s descendant William V. Wells on an African-American woman named Surry , who came to the second Elizabeth A...

As I’ve been relating , Jamaica Plain native John Loring was a midshipman in the Royal Navy , fourteen or fifteen years old, when he was c...