Boston 1775

Last week, inspired by today’s reenactment of the tea burning in Marshfield , I traced all the sources I could find about that event. I...

In 1966, Congress and President Lyndon B. Johnson established the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. That body would accomplish ...

In 1940, the town of Marshfield celebrated the 300th anniversary of its founding. Among the projects of the Tercentenary Committee was th...

The wonderfully named Lysander Salmon Richards (1835–1926, shown here) published a two-volume History of Marshfield in 1901 and 1905. In ...

As I recounted back in 2016 , Marshfield was unusually split in the last years before the war. Some influential men supported the Crown, an...

I’ve been tracing the political back-and-forth in Marshfield , Massachusetts, often labeled a “Tory town” but more clearly a split town. W...

As the year 1774 began, the Loyalist party in Marshfield was on top, pushing through a town-meeting resolution disapproving of the destru...

Because Marshfield officially voted to thank Gov. Thomas Gage for sending troops in the winter of 1775, it got a lasting reputation as a ...

As I described yesterday, in February 1775 Marshfield ’s Loyalist selectmen led a town meeting in voting to publicly thank Gen. Thomas Gag...

In February 1775 Marshfield ’s Loyalist community was feeling emboldened by the presence of a hundred British regulars , and perhaps upset ...