Boston 1775

Early on Friday morning, I got a text alerting me that I was on the front page of the Boston Globe ’s Metro section. The photo by Josh Rey...

As I’ve been discussing, a British army court-martial ordered Lt. Col. William Walcott to be reprimanded on the Common in front of the se...

As quoted yesterday, on 15 Apr 1775 a court-martial sentenced Lt. Col. William Walcott to be reprimanded in front of the entire second bri...

As described yesterday, in March 1775 Lt. Col. William Walcott came to blows, and nearly to a pistol duel, with Robert Patrick , an ensign ...

What were officers of the British army in Boston thinking about in the weeks leading up to 18 Apr 1775? Judging by the word count of what...

The Massachusetts Patriots weren’t the only folks building an alarm system over the winter of 1774–75. On 30 December, Gen. Thomas Gage ...

Here’s another transcribed letter from the Papers of John Hancock . Thomas Cushing , having been replaced as a Massachusetts delegate to t...

My ears perked up at this announcement from the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: The Colonial Society is publishing the Papers of John Han...

First in Boston 1775 postings and then in this article for the Journal of the American Revolution (also printed in this volume ), I posite...

To start the new month, this posting is about Boston 1775 itself rather than Revolutionary history. I still view this blog as the primary...

On 30 June 1775, Gen. Artemas Ward received word of his new commission as major general in the new Continental Army . Ward immediately wr...

As I quoted yesterday , on 23 June 1775 Gen. Nathaniel Folsom wrote to the New Hampshire Provincial Congress about Col. John Stark refusi...

The New Hampshire general Nathaniel Folsom arrived on the siege lines around Boston on 20 June 1775. However, Col. John Stark (shown h...

The Battle of Lake George on 8 Sept 1755 probably involved fewer than 3,500 men, a little more on the British side than the French . Each c...

I’ve been quoting Capt. Nathaniel Folsom ’s account of his New Hampshire troops’ fight against a French and Indian force south of Lake G...

Yesterday we left Capt. Nathaniel Folsom of New Hampshire and Capt. William Maginnis of New York leading their provincial companies nor...

Nathaniel Folsom (1726-1790) came from an old and prominent New Hampshire family. He was a merchant and owner of a sawmill and shipyard. ...

I’ve now traced the establishment of the Massachusetts army , the Connecticut army , and the Rhode Island army , all signed up to fight unti...

The Sons of the American Revolution is sponsoring a scholarly conference at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on 29–3...

On Wednesday, 23 June, Zara Anishanslin will speak at the Massachusetts Historical Society on her new book, The Painter’s Fire: A Forgott...