Boston 1775

At the end of 1776, Hopestill Capen was still locked away from his wife Patience . And Capen lost patience in another way. On 30 December...

Two hundred fifty years ago today, on 18 Oct 1773, the Boston Post-Boy published this advertisement: THIS DAY PUBLISHED, And to be SOLD at...

Last month the National Museum of African American History and Culture, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., announced the acquisiti...

The same 27 Sept 1773 newspapers that ran Jacob Bates ’s latest advertisements about his equestrian show at the foot of the Mall in Boston...

Princeton University announced this month that alumnus Sidney Lapidus had completed the gift of a large collection of pamphlets and other p...

Isaiah Thomas ’s Massachusetts Spy started to publish the essays of “Mucius Scævola” on 30 May 1771, four months after Joseph Greenleaf ad...

On 16 Nov 1771, the day after Joseph Greenleaf declined to meet with Gov. Thomas Hutchinson and the Massachusetts Council (on the under...

As I quoted back here , on 14 Nov 1771 the Massachusetts Spy published an essay signed “Mucius Scævola” that called Gov. Thomas Hutchinso...

You might think that getting through November meant the end of the saga of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson ’s controversial 1771 Thanksgiving procl...

I’ve been considering Gov. Thomas Hutchinson ’s Thanksgiving proclamation in 1771, one of the many bones of contention in Revolutionary B...

In 1799 the Massachusetts Historical Society published a history of newspapers in Boston and New England. Unsigned at the time, that arti...

A while back I discussed whether Penelope Russell took over The Censor from her husband Ezekiel , or was simply his indispensable partner ...

In 1746, Abigail Paine was a twenty-one-year-old Boston woman. Despite her intelligence, she had no chance to go to Harvard College, as her ...

I've complained about how many authors have painted a distorted picture of Samuel Adams, squeezing a Puritan gentleman politician of th...