Boston 1775

In September 1728 the Massachusetts General Court promoted local paper manufacturing by granting a ten-year patent to a group of investo...

Last month I posted twice about the cost of advertising in colonial American newspapers. One source of those articles, the 1884 U.S. Cen...

After my posting on colonial newspaper advertising rates , Caitlin G. DeAngelis alerted me to some additional data inside Charles E. Clark...

I’ve been writing about the Fleet family, enslaved to Thomas Fleet  and trained in the printing business. Isaiah Thomas recalled that in th...

Finally I’m getting back to the family of enslaved printers in pre-Revolutionary Boston, Peter Fleet and his sons Pompey and Caesar . ...

Yesterday I mentioned an article by Samuel Eliot Morison that the Colonial Society of Massachusetts published in 1924. That article present...

Last week I spoke to the Freedom Trail Foundation guides as they were preparing for a new season leading people around Boston. I talked...