Boston 1775

History, analysis, and unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution in New England.

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Showing posts with label Moses Little. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Moses Little. Show all posts

Thursday, July 03, 2025

“Necessary that the regiments be immediately settled”

Many accounts of George Washington ’s arrival in Cambridge in 1775 say that he converted the ragtag New England militia into the Continen...

Wednesday, July 02, 2025

“Alarmed that the Regulars were advancing towards Our Entrencment”

Among the presentations at this Saturday’s commemoration of Gen. George Washington ’s arrival in Cambridge is a talk by Longfellow House a...

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Two Robert Newmans in the North End

On 13 Mar 1806, the Independent Chronicle of Boston ran this death notice: Mr. Robert Newman, aged 51. His funeral will be from his lat...

Sunday, September 17, 2017

The Difficult Career of the Rev. John Cleaveland, Jr.

John Cleaveland was born in the part of Ipswich that’s now Essex in 1750. He was the son and namesake of the town minister. John, Jr....

Monday, June 20, 2016

Samuel Gerrish, First Officer of the Massachusetts Army

Last month I wrote about how the Massachusetts Provincial Congress finally started commissioning infantry officers for its army (as oppo...

Friday, June 17, 2016

Francis Merrifield’s Bible

Earlier this spring the Bonhams auction house offered for sale a Bible printed in Edinburgh in 1755. What made this particular Bible so n...

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