Boston 1775

Yesterday we found Ezekiel Brown back in his native town of Concord . He had left as a boy , his poor family seeking better farmland, and...

As described yesterday, Lt. Col. Moses Parker of Chelmsford died as a prisoner of war on 4 July 1775 from a leg wound he suffered in the ...

As I said yesterday, Col. Ebenezer Bridge ’s regiment was one of the New England units ordered onto the Charlestown peninsula on the nigh...

Moses Parker was born on 13 May 1731 in Chelmsford . Seven years earlier, his father Joseph had served as a “Lieutenant of a company of sn...

After the Battle of Bunker Hill , the Ezekiel Russell print shop in Salem issued “AN ELEGIAC POEM” on the battle. That broadside probabl...