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Thursday, October 31, 2024
“The workmen all pack’d up their tools and left the barracks”
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In late September 1774, as described by the Boston merchant John Andrews yesterday , towns neighboring Boston put pressure on their own ci...
Friday, January 29, 2021
“Lodged in part pay for the said Cannon”
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In September and October 1774, as I describe in The Road to Concord , Gen. Thomas Gage ’s royal government and the Patriots in and around B...
Friday, May 25, 2018
Going through the Motions on Election Day
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On 25 May 1768, 250 years ago today, Election Day finally arrived in Boston. At 9:00 A.M. the towns’ representatives to the Massachusett...
Thursday, May 24, 2018
“One of the leaders of the Disaffected in this town”
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In May 1768, as I quoted yesterday , Boston’s town meeting took a stand against letting the Commissioners of Customs dine in Faneuil Hal...
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