Boston 1775

As recounted yesterday, on 25 Apr 1776 the Massachusetts General Court issued a resolve to catch John Hill , an Irish-born Loyalist accuse...

On 13 Apr 1776, the Massachusetts General Court decided that “ Caleb Wheaton and others [well, other men ], who were taken aboard the brig...

Ashley Bowen was a sailrigger in Marblehead who kept a diary for many years, published in print and online by the Colonial Society of Mass...

A lot of the correspondence that followed the Continental capture of the Elizabeth in April 1776 involved money. First, there was the cos...

The Journal of the American Revolution has announced its 2025 Book of the Year Award . The winner is The American Revolution and the Fate...

In the year after the Boston Massacre , Benjamin Burdick became the proprietor of the Freemason’s Arms tavern—better known as the Green Dra...

Enemies to Their Country: The Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution is Nicholas W. Gentile’s first book, just publ...

On Saturday, 8 November, Salem State University will host a symposium titled “’To Drive a Great Trade to Bilbao’: Rediscovering New England’...

I’ve now quoted two nineteenth-century accounts from descendants of Elbridge Gerry , Azor Orne , and Jeremiah Lee (shown here) saying th...

Save the Glover is a campaign by several historic organizations in Swampscott and neighboring towns to preserve an eighteenth-century farmh...

Essex County is gearing up to commemorate the Sestercentennial of “Leslie’s Retreat,” the frustrated British army expedition on 26 Feb 177...

Last spring I worked with the Pursuit of History, the nonprofit founded by Lee Wright to organize History Camp, to produce a weekend of talk...

Dissecting the multiple texts of the Solemn League and Covenant boycott and following the Rev. Ebenezer Parkman ’s uncomfortable wriggling ...

John Andrews was another merchant who left a lively record of the discussions in Boston in spring 1774 as the business community grappled w...

As shown yesterday , Capt. Daniel Malcom ’s gravestone still stands in Copp’s Hill Burying Ground. Indeed, it’s one of the featured attra...

Among the items in the London newspapers that arrived in Marblehead in the first week of April 1775 was this: Yesterday a messenger was sen...

On 6 Apr 1775, James Warren was in Concord , representing Plymouth in the Massachusetts Provincial Congress . He started writing home to...

On Monday, 18 March, Judy Anderson will discuss “Five Glover Houses in Marblehead” at the Abbot Public Library. Registration to attend th...

You may have noticed that the two newspaper articles I’ve quoted about Sylvanus Lowell ’s injuries and recovery didn’t state his full name...