Boston 1775

In 1787, the Confederation Congress was meeting in New York , at City Hall and the Fraunces Tavern (shown here). When Henry Howell Willi...

The challenges of managing Lt. Col. Abijah Brown drew me away from the episode that initially drew my attention to him—Col. Richard Gridley...

Yesterday I discussed Richard Gridley ’s petitions to the post-war Continental Congress to keep compensating him for the loss of his Crown...

Yesterday I quoted Continental artillery colonel Jeduthan Baldwin ’s record that on 14 Dec 1775 he “went in the afternoon to Dotchester po...