Boston 1775

Yesterday we left the Rev. John Cleaveland, Jr. , at odds with his Stoneham neighbors in 1794. The trouble was his second marriage to you...

Yesterday I described the accomplishments of young John Trumbull , son of a Westbury, Connecticut , minister. His mother, daughter of anot...

Yesterday I described the arrival of a set of books in Franklin , Massachusetts, the result of a financial gift from Benjamin Franklin (...

The Boston Globe just reported on “an old-fashioned turf war” between the city of Franklin’s public library and the private non-profit gro...

The Rev. Dr. Mather Byles, Sr. (1706-1788), was the minister of the Hollis Street Meeting-house, in the far South End of Boston. He was unu...