Boston 1775

The third of Boston’s politically active physicians , Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr. , also wrote to Samuel Adams on 4 Sept 1774. Church hadn’t...

Having returned from a busy convention in California, I’m going back to the Solemn League and Covenant of June 1774. Or, more accurately, ...

I’m at last getting to the original purpose of the 3 Feb 1775 petition to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress ’s committee of safety that ...

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation recently announced the completion of its project to preserve the remaining milestones alon...

In early March 1775, soon after “Leslie’s Retreat” in Salem , Gen. Thomas Gage started to receive solid information about the Massachuset...

In 1819, Samuel Swett identified the American soldier who shot Maj. John Pitcairn of the British Marines as “a black soldier named Salem.”...