Boston 1775

To bolster his request for compensation after the Battle of Chelsea Creek, Noddle’s Island estate owner Henry Howell Williams assembled se...

Last month the Times Observer newspaper of Warren, Pennsylvania, reported on an exhibit at the local historical society that included a le...

Returning to Dr. Benjamin Church ’s intelligence report dated 24 Sept 1775, he had a couple more things to say about the Continental Army ’...

The fourth quotation to track down from that U.S. Army webpage is the first to appear in its paragraph about the creation of the Continenta...

I was tracing the political career of John Pigeon , a Boston merchant who retired to Newton a few years before the Revolution. In the ear...

As I wrote yesterday , in 1768 the Boston merchant and insurance broker John Pigeon retired to a farm estate in Newton . But in 1773, as ...

Yesterday I shared some details about how a woman named Sally Edwards —possibly still in her teens, with no husband in sight—gave birth to ...