Boston 1775

Old North Illuminated is living up to its name by hosting an online presentation by Jake Sconyers on the topic “They Burnt Tolerable Well:...

On 9 Dec 1755, Richard Pratt of Lynn wrote in his journal: Was a Whale taken up at Sea and Brought in To Kings-Beach abought 75 feet Long ...

As related in yesterday’s posting , a storm in September 1767 pushed a schooner packed with whale oil onto Cape Cod . But that ship was...

On Thursday, 1 Oct 1767, the biggest local story in the Boston News-Letter was the weather: The Beginning of last Week we had here very ser...

As I discussed yesterday , the British government exempted the island of Nantucket from its Restraining Act, which limited trade with Ameri...

In the early spring of 1775, even before the Battle of Lexington and Concord , Parliament took steps to clamp down on New England and its ...

As quoted yesterday, two publications from 1835—one in English and one in German —appear to be the first print appearances of the name “ M...

In 1763 the London merchant Jonathan Barnard took on Gilbert Harrison (d. 1790, his monument in the church at Newton Purcell shown here) a...

On the weekend of 24-26 June, Historic Deerfield will host the annual Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, this year’s topic being “N...

The Boston Massacre occurred 244 years ago today. From the start that was a controversial event with different participants seeing it quite...

Walter Spooner (1723-1803) was a representative to the Massachusetts General Court from the town of Dartmouth , which contained what’s beco...

According to an reminiscence by Dr. Ephraim Eliot, the Boston merchant Daniel Bell (1752-1791) and his brother-in-law, Dr. Amos Windship (17...