Boston 1775

I’ve written before about how Henry Howell Williams came from a wealthy, well-connected Roxbury family. Close relatives married member...

By 1787, Henry Howell Williams had been reestablished on Noddle’s Island for about three years. Having stayed in Massachusetts throughout...

Within two weeks of seeing the provincial army destroy his house and farm on Noddle’s Island during the Battle of Chelsea Creek, Henry How...

Henry Howell Williams lost more property in the Battle of Chelsea Creek than anyone else but the Royal Navy . Williams held the lease fo...

Yet another outcome of the Battle of Chelsea Creek was the destruction or removal of various agricultural resources on Hog Island and Noddl...

As discussed yesterday , Henry Howell Williams ’s oversaw what was probably the biggest farming operation in Boston harbor in 1775. He was...

Save the Glover is a campaign by several historic organizations in Swampscott and neighboring towns to preserve an eighteenth-century farmh...

On Saturday and Sunday, 8–9 February, the Friends of Minute Man Park will once again host “The Hive,” a living history symposium designed t...

The town of Lincoln is observing the Sestercentennial with a series of exhibits at the library and a series of events. The January exh...

The topic of this seminar at the David Center for the American Revolution in Philadelphia caught my eye: “The Triumph of Bank Time in the E...

On the evening of Tuesday, 4 June, I’ll speak to the Stoneham Historical Society. The society is headlining my talk “The Most Hated Man in ...

You thought I was done with Jacob Bates when we saw him off to London four days before the Boston Tea Party . However, in The Circus: Its...

For the last several months Kimberly Alexander and her classes at the University of New Hampshire have been exploring a staple crop of colon...

Last month the Journal of the Early Republic ’s Panorama website published an essay by Blake McGready titled “Searching for a Reusable Past...

Last month the Cambridge Core website shared Carole Shammas’s essay  “How Long did the School Year Last in Early America?” I’ve studied sc...

Sir Francis Dashwood, baronet , served as chancellor of the exchequer in the government of the Earl of Bute . That went poorly for both of t...

As the eastern U.S. of A. deals with smoke from forest fires in Canada, it seems appropriate to link to a recorded book talk about a simila...

Camille Davis recently reviewed Bruce A. Ragsdale’s Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery for H-Net. ...

As I mentioned yesterday , David Stoddard Greenough, the lawyer and landowner who took control of what’s now the Loring Greenough House in ...

On Saturday, 15 October, Minute Man National Historical Park will host a day of special programming on the theme of “Preparing for Winter, ...