Boston 1775

Here’s my favorite new archeological discovery, as reported by National Geographic and the Salisbury (N.C.) Post . The flagship of the ...

Here are some digital goodies from the George Washington National Library at Mount Vernon , which I visited last year for a symposium. P...

In a letter to her father , Benjamin Franklin, dated 17 Jan 1779, Sarah Bache (shown here in 1793) wrote from Philadelphia: I have dine...

Last week (and last month) I shared an item from Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer about the Massachusetts Provincial Congress preparing f...

The Checklist of American Newspaper Carriers’ Addresses that I discussed last year includes a section of Canadian examples both before ...

The earliest examples of a poetic address from colonial American newspaper carriers to their customers on New Year’s Day are all from the fa...

Yesterday I shared the New Year’s greeting for 1783 that Philip Freneau composed specifically for Francis Wrigley to share with his cust...

Philip Freneau (1752-1832) graduated from Princeton College in 1771, already in the habit of writing poetry. He tried teaching and study...

It’s a Boston 1775 tradition at the turn of each year to share at least one carrier verse or address. Back in eighteenth-century Americ...

This week I looked back on the year and chose the postings that please me most, especially if they braided together sources to present new...

On 29 Dec 1774, Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer ran the following items: Extract of a letter from Boston. “Every thing is at present quie...

A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America by Sam White looks at early American history outside my usua...

The Knox Museum in Thomaston, Maine , built to honor Gen. Henry Knox , has announced that it may close next year if it can’t quickly rais...

Earlier this year Susan Holloway Scott of the Two Nerdy History Girls shared a look at the wallpaper of the Schuyler Mansion in Albany . ...

In December 1775, Moses Brown led a delegation of Quakers from Rhode Island up to the Boston siege lines to bring relief to the suffer...

Lt. Martin Hunter did not have an enjoyable Christmas in 1775. That wasn’t just because he was besieged in Boston with the 52nd Regim...

Since I’ve been looking at the effort of starting a new newspaper in pre-Revolutionary Boston, it seems appropriate to share the video on ...

When in October 1767 John Mein and John Fleeming circulated the proposal to publish a new weekly newspaper in Boston, their plan started...

This is the Sestercentennial, or 250th anniversary, of the first issue of the Boston Chronicle . For a decade Boston had been a four-new...

Several years ago, I took my mother to visit London for the first time. A friend she stayed with and I chose most of the places we visited...