Boston 1775

In 1854 the New England Historic and Genealogical Register printed transcript of pages inserted into Samuel Adams ’s family Bible, setting ...

One of the Bostonians caught up in the Boston Massacre was Edward Langford, who identified himself during the subsequent trials as a member...

A couple of days ago, I listed Boston’s three representatives to the Massachusetts General Court as of 25 Sept 1765. Under the pre-Revo...

Yesterday I started quoting from Dr. Ephraim Eliot ’s notes inside a copy of an 1821 pamphlet in the Harvard library. That pamphlet is a...