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Friday, September 06, 2024
The Flight of the Cambridge Loyalists, part 3
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When the ministry in London chose supportive gentlemen for the Council under the Massachusetts Government Act, one was William Vassall (17...
Sunday, December 10, 2023
The Resources of the Royal Governor
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Andrew Roberts’s Spectator essay about the Boston Tea Party , discussed yesterday , ends with the line: One wonders what would have happene...
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Sunday, November 05, 2023
“The 5th. of Novr. being a day of disorder”
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On 3 Nov 1773, as I described back in 2019 , Boston saw its first tea -inspired violence . The Sons of Liberty, using a note signed “O.C....
Friday, April 23, 2021
Dots on the Ensign’s Map
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Yesterday I started to discuss a hand-drawn map from the Library of Congress that Ed Redmond has identified as likely coming from British a...
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Friday, December 13, 2019
“All possible exertions to stem the current of the mob”
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Richard Clarke and Sons weren’t the only merchants tapped by the East India Company to import tea into Boston in 1773. The others were:...
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