Boston 1775

Before returning to Dr. John Newman , I’ll share some other sources on the treatment of cancers in New England on the eve of the Revolution...

Kenneth A. Lockridge died last month at the age of seventy-nine. He was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Montana, having...

Since I’ve been writing about the Warrens of Plymouth in 1775, it seems appropriate to mention that there’s a push to increase Mercy Warren...

Among the items in the London newspapers that arrived in Marblehead in the first week of April 1775 was this: Yesterday a messenger was sen...

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife has announced the program of its 2023 conference on “Indigenous Histories in New England: Pastke...

Back in 2012 I wrote about the “prophetic egg” found in Plymouth at the end of 1776, forecasting victory for the Howes . I quoted a coup...

In 1741, in the English market town of Totnes, a baby was baptized with the name Michael Angelo Warwell. The reason for such a baroque n...

On 24 Dec 1770, the Old Colony Club of Plymouth met to celebrate Forefathers’ Day, a tradition that went back a whole year but which comm...

The Boston Area Early American History Seminar has changed its name to the Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar, honoring the late...

On 29 Dec 1774, Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer ran the following items: Extract of a letter from Boston. “Every thing is at present quie...

Charles Paxton (1708-1788, shown here in a portrait at the American Antiquarian Society ) was a major figure in Boston’s 1767 Pope Night ...

The Old Colony Club started as a group of seven young gentlemen from Plymouth . They formed their club in January 1769, and on 22 December o...

So in 1775 there were a hundred British soldiers stationed in Marshfield , mostly on the estate of Nathaniel Ray Thomas . Their commander w...

Ebenezer Thompson was born in West Haven, Connecticut , in 1712. He graduated from Yale College in 1733, married the following March, and...

The letters I quoted yesterday described the arrival of about a hundred British soldiers in Marshfield on 23 Jan 1775, sent by Gen. Thoma...

I’m skeptical about a bunch of the stories Elkanah Watson told in his memoir, Men and Times of the Revolution , but I like this early ane...

On Saturday, 8 November, the Plymouth auctioneer J. James is offering a boatload of antiques and other material that the Mayflower Societ...

Yesterday’s posting left Priscilla (Thomas Watson) Lothrop and the Rev. Noah Hobart reunited more than two decades after they had broken ...

Yesterday I started quoting from Benjamin Marston Watson’s story in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for 1873, describ...

The following story was written by Benjamin Marston Watson (1780-1851) and submitted by his younger brother John L. Watson to the New Englan...