Boston 1775

Yesterday saw the official debut of the Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions . This online databas...

According to Samuel “Rat-trap” Adams , the wire-worker and former town crier , he: was six years old when the Stamp Act protests occurred...

Yesterday I mentioned a New England Historical and Genealogical Register obituary for Samuel “Rat-trap” Adams after his death in 1855. Af...

I’ve been writing about Samuel “Rat-trap” Adams , a well-known character in Boston who died in 1855. He was honored as a survivor of the R...

Yesterday I mentioned James Spear Loring’s Hundred Boston Orators , an oft-reprinted collection of profiles of prominent Bostonians from t...

(I keep finding mid-nineteenth-century stuff about Samuel “Rat-trap” Adams, putting off my promised discussion of his youth in the Revolut...

The wire-worker Samuel Adams was a prominent character in nineteenth-century Boston, as Kathryn Griffith described in her recent profile f...

In two postings on the Bostonian Society’s blog, Kathryn Griffith just profiled Samuel Adams the wire-worker, source of the striped clo...