Boston 1775

Two hundred fifty years ago, the fifty-eight artillery pieces that Col. Henry Knox had convoyed from Fort Ticonderoga were in Framingham ...

On 6 Nov 1775, the Boston Gazette , then being published in Watertown , ran this announcement from the keeper of the jail at Cambridge : ...

The Journal of the American Revolution has just published an article by me titled “Peter Salem? Salem Poor? Who Killed Major John Pitcairn...

Yesterday I quoted two Connecticut newspapers from March 1775 reporting on the detection of a slave conspiracy in Natick . Such worries ...

In Framingham , there’s a tradition that the militia alarm on 19 Apr 1775 was spread by an African-American playing a trumpet . Lately, in...

Looking for documents about African-Americans in the New England ranks before Gen. George Washington ’s arrival, I checked the new Harvar...

Yesterday’s Boston Globe included an article by Francie Latour rounding up several books and a movie issued over the past decade about sla...

So what’s the right question about the story of Maj. John Pitcairn ’s death in the Battle of Bunker Hill ? I think it’s why so many storie...

As I noted a couple of days ago , the first history of Framingham published after Peter Salem died there said nothing about the town nativ...

Starting in 1826, or more than half a century after the Battle of Bunker Hill , Peter Salem of Framingham and Leicester has been most oft...

In 1819, Samuel Swett identified the American soldier who shot Maj. John Pitcairn of the British Marines as “a black soldier named Salem.”...

On Sunday, 12 November, at 2:00 P.M., Bruce Harris will present "Peter Salem—Fighting in the Hope of Freedom," the story of an Afr...