Boston 1775

A little more than nine months after Richard Carpenter — immigrant , barber, and former prisoner of war — resigned from the Continental Army...

After Boston barber Richard Carpenter and Pennsylvania rifleman Walter Cruise got out of British custody around the turn of the year 1777,...

Yesterday we left the barber Richard Carpenter “still confined in one room at Halifax ” with many other American prisoners in September 1...

Two hundred thirty-five years ago today, the British fleet pulled away from Boston’s wharves , carrying several thousand soldiers, about a t...

On 18 July 1775, the Dublin-born barber Richard Carpenter swam from Boston, held by the British military, to Dorchester , under the control...

In honor of my talk on “Washington’s First Spy Ring” in Cambridge this Thursday, this will be Intelligence Week at Boston 1775 . “Intellig...

Here’s another glimpse of life inside besieged Boston from William Cheever ’s diary, now online at the Massachusetts Historical Society . Th...

The situation inside besieged Boston was looking dire, according to this 25 July 1775 letter from a British officer to gentleman in London, ...

Tonight I break off from testimony about the Boston Massacre to a more mysterious story from 237 years ago. Ezekiel Price (c. 1728-1802) wa...