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Showing posts with label William Dorrington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Dorrington. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The Jury for the James Caldwell Inquest

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As I wrote yesterday , I now lean toward housewright Thomas Crafts, Sr. , being one of the Suffolk County coroners who responded to the Bost...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Dorringtons Accused of “Blowing Up Flies”

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As I quoted back here, Boston selectman Timothy Newell recorded that on 14 July 1775: Dorrington his son and daughter and the nurse for blo...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

“Where the Small Pox has been for sometime past”

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In December 1774, Boston selectmen learned that children in three British officers’ families were recovering from the smallpox —possibly aft...
Friday, July 17, 2009

“Neither...would own that they had received the Infection by Inoculation.”

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Even though Boston’s selectmen reacted quickly to the news on 22 Nov 1774 that children in two soldiers ’ families had come down with the sm...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Boston’s Selectmen Fight the Smallpox

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On 22 Nov 1774, the Boston selectmen learned that smallpox had broken out in town. Frightening as this disease was, the selectmen had proce...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

William Dorrington: keeper of the hospital

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Yesterday I quoted Boston selectman Timothy Newell recording the arrest of “Dorrington his son and daughter and the nurse” by British mili...