Boston 1775

The message from Thomas Chase quoted yesterday makes clear that in 1780 Henry Howell Williams still felt he had a claim to “the Soil” of ...

As soon as the siege of Boston ended, the Massachusetts government moved to fortify Noddle’s Island and other spots in Boston harbor. On...

We have a reasonably good idea of who eight of Boston’s “Loyall Nine” were: John Avery, Jr. , distiller and merchant Thomas Chase , distill...

In a 19 Dec 1765 letter divulging details about Boston’s latest Stamp Act protest, and earlier ones, Henry Bass wrote of the organizers a...

As recounted yesterday , Capt. Thomas Speakman was killed in the French and Indian War in January 1757. Though I haven’t seen his pro...

Early in October 1768 a family arrived in Boston from Halifax : James Joan (also spelled Juhan and Juan); his wife Mary; their children ...

On 1 Mar 1775, a group of middling-class Boston activists sent a letter to the Sons of Liberty in New York , asking to set up a regular corr...

So yesterday the North End Caucus —a group of more than sixty politically minded Bostonians—started meeting in 1772 to choose candidates for...