Boston 1775

As discussed yesterday , there’s good evidence that Crispus Attucks was the first person shot at the Boston Massacre . There’s even stron...

On 20 Mar 1770, 250 years ago yesterday, a sailor named Robert Patterson testified to his memory of the Boston Massacre . Patterson was...

As we approach the anniversary of the Boston Massacre on 5 March, Charles Bahne, author of The Complete Guide to Boston’s Freedom Trail , ...

On Thursday, 22 Feb 1770, the Boston News-Letter contained this item in italics at the bottom of its local news: This Instant we hear t...

As he testified in March 1770, Robert Patterson was wounded in the right arm during the Boston Massacre —one of several Bostonians injured ...

Robert Patterson was a sailor. Since Boston was the third largest port in North America, there were many sailors in town over the winter of...

In colonial Boston, some newspapers published each Monday, and some each Thursday. Because the Boston Massacre occurred on a Monday evening,...

For a couple of days I’ve been discussing how in early 1770 Boston was aboil with conflict over a “nonimportation” of goods from Britain t...