Boston 1775

On 21 April, the Philadelphia Inquirer shared an opinion piece about the President’s House exhibit by Sharon Ann Holt, a public historian ...

Since I mentioned Gen. John Burgoyne a few days back (even if Robert Woolf didn’t), that gives me a reason to point to the big Burgoyne ...

Samuel Madden was born in Dublin in 1686. His father was a physician , and his mother was part of the prominent Molyneux family. Even bef...

Yesterday I alluded to a Professor Buzzkill podcast as my spur to look for the statement “We must hang together or separately” in a letter...

Friday, 18 April, will be the 250th anniversary of the day when Maj. Edward Mitchell led over a dozen British army officers on horseback ...

The Lexington Historical Society is now the Lexington History Museums . As the Sestercentennial of the start of the Revolutionary War ap...

As a self-proclaimed propagator of unabashed gossip from Revolutionary New England, I have to note the recent publication of a new edition o...

At the start of February 1770, the big news in Boston was the non-importation movement, and particularly the weekly demonstrations by schoo...

Page 7 of the 8 May 1770 issue of Anthony Henry ’s Nova Scotia Chronicle was nearly entirely taken up with what looks like an extraordinar...

As I wrote yesterday , by 1781 a man named Jacob Bates was living north of Philadelphia and breeding horses . Was this the same Jacob Bat...

On 12 Dec 1773, two and a half centuries ago today , the equestrian Jacob Bates left America. We know this from a couple of newspaper ite...

We last left the equestrian Jacob Bates as he arrived in Newport, having already exhibited his skills in Philadelphia, New York , and Bosto...

As discussed yesterday , in the early 1770s there were two men named Wildman exhibiting bees in London. The uncle, Thomas Wildman (1734–...

After reading the description of the feats of conjuring and bee-training by “Mr. Wildman” in London quoted yesterday , I went looking for mo...

On 11 Oct 1773, 250 years ago today, Jacob Bates ran his last advertisement in the Boston newspapers. It appeared in the Boston Post-Boy ...

On 8 Sept 1773, as described back here , Jacob Bates debuted his equestrian exhibition in Boston. The merchant John Rowe wrote in his d...

The same 27 Sept 1773 newspapers that ran Jacob Bates ’s latest advertisements about his equestrian show at the foot of the Mall in Boston...

On Tuesday, 28 Sept 1773—two and a half centuries ago today— Jacob Bates once again performed his feats of horsemanship at the bottom of th...

Two hundred fifty years ago today, on 9 Sept 1773, Jacob Bates ran this advertisement in the Boston News-Letter : Mr. BATES Is extremely s...

When we last checked in with equestrian Jacob Bates , on 27 Aug 1773 the Boston selectmen denied his request “to erect a Fence in the Comm...