Boston 1775

At the end of 1776, Hopestill Capen was still locked away from his wife Patience . And Capen lost patience in another way. On 30 December...

Yesterday I quoted a long anecdote that John Adams wrote out in 1789 about a discussion between two Massachusetts politicians seventeen ye...

On Monday, 26 Mar 1770, 250 years ago today , the inhabitants of Boston once again gathered in Faneuil Hall for a town meeting . Technica...

On 19 Mar 1770, 250 years ago today , Bostonians gathered for another session of the town meeting they had begun a week before. Having ...

Yesterday we bravely accompanied James Murray , a justice of the peace known to be friendly to the royal government, into Faneuil Hall as t...

Back in September, before other Sestercentennial anniversaries came along, I started to explore the 5 Sept 1769 brawl in the British Cof...

I have still more to share about the Otis-Robinson brawl, but sestercentennial anniversaries are catching up, so I’ll have to get back to...

One of the more evocatively named citizens of Revolutionary Boston was a sea captain named Mungo Mackay (1740-1811). According to family...

In the 25 Sept 1769 Boston Gazette , printers Benjamin Edes and John Gill ran two more eyewitness accounts of the fight between James Otis, ...

Last night’s talk at the Lexington Historical Society was fun, and I learned new stuff while preparing it. For instance, the Museum of Fi...