Boston 1775

In his History of the Siege of Boston , Richard Frothingham published a letter about the Battle of Bunker Hill written by Samuel Gray in Ro...

Here are some more of the slashing character sketches published in the 8 May 1770 Nova Scotia Chronicle in the guise of detailing a “Tragi...

On 5 Mar 1774, Bostonians applauded John Hancock as he delivered that year’s oration commemorating the Boston Massacre . The next week, h...

On 28 June 1774, the Boston town meeting witnessed “long Debates” about the committee of correspondence’s call for a non-consumption agreem...

As I wrote yesterday , the text of the Solemn League and Covenant that towns like Westford and Attleboro approved was not the first ve...

The Boston committee of correspondence’s Solemn League and Covenant went further than previous boycotts by having ordinary people pledge no...

Among the Bostonians objecting to the town committee of correspondence’s Solemn League and Covenant of June 1774 was John Andrews . Normally...

By the end of May 1774, Boston had held several sessions of a town meeting about how to respond to the Boston Port Bill . On the afternoo...

On Monday, 27 June 1774, the political argument over Boston’s committee of correspondence came to a head. Merchants and friends of the ro...

On 17 June 1774, as Samuel Adams was orchestrating what would be the last session of the Massachusetts General Court under royal rule, hi...

Earlier this year, I saw a tweet crediting Samuel Adams with the line: “With ladies on our side, we can make every Tory tremble.” Adams...

The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum social media has been sharing an image from the Boston committee of correspondence records, showing...

Over the two days of 5–6 Nov 1773, the Boston town meeting tried to finish the job an informal committee of businessmen (and rioters ) had ...

Bostonians gathered on short notice in Faneuil Hall for a town meeting on 5 Nov 1773. Their first act was to choose John Hancock as moder...

The official published records of the town of Boston say that on Monday, 3 Apr 1775, the inhabitants held a meeting in Faneuil Hall . Wit...

Just to make matters confusing, the twelve men elected by the Boston town meeting to be clerks of the market for one year weren’t the only...

On Sunday, 6 Mar 1774, as described yesterday , the brig Fortune carried 28 1/2 chests of tea into Boston harbor, along with “ Gun-Powder ...

This week I watched an online talk by Robert Darnton about his new book Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment ...

In the early designs of Faneuil Hall , I believe, the bottom level of the building was surrounded by a series of arches open to the air. I...