Boston 1775

On 3 Mar 1785, the state of Massachusetts brought Thomas Archibald and William Scott to trial for burglarizing the home of James Lovel...

Yesterday we watched three men— William Scott , Thomas Archibald , and Nero Faneuil — burgle the home of James Lovell in the early morning...

As I said yesterday , the only reason we know more than perfunctory details about the trial of two men for stealing a chest from James Lov...

Nero Faneuil was a black man who petitioned for an end to slavery in Massachusetts in 1777, as quoted here . It’s unclear whether he was ...

On 29 Nov 1784, the American Herald newspaper of Boston carried this crime report from the previous week: The House of the Hon. JAMES LOV...

In publishing ladies’ reactions to his poem about his beard , and to the beard itself, shoemaker William Scott seemed to argue that some f...

Yesterday I quoted a rather bad poem that Boston shoemaker William Scott sent to the New-Hampshire Gazette in 1764 explaining why he like...

Yesterday I quoted Hannah Mather Crocker about a shoemaker named Scott who wore an immensely unfashionable long beard in Boston starting i...

Last Thursday I went to Eileen Hunt Botting’s talk to the North End Historical Society about how Hannah Mather Crocker described Boston’...

Yesterday’s quotations from diaries of the American attack on Québec in late 1775 came from Voices from a Wilderness Expedition: The Journ...