Boston 1775

The 7 May 1771 Connecticut Courant newspaper of Hartford repeated Sheriff Ezekiel Williams ’s wanted notice for Richard Steele that I quot...

Yesterday we left young Richard Steele back in the custody of Hartford County law enforcement in February 1771. According to the 27 Augu...

Yesterday’s posting left Richard Steele in New Haven, Connecticut , in December 1770, being branded and cropped on his ear the second time...

On 17 Sept 1770, the Connecticut Courant of Hartford reported on recent cases from “the Superior Court of Assize and General Goal Delivery...

In January I broke off a series of postings about the first years of Connecticut ’s New-Gate Prison because of the press of other matters. ...

Speaking of comics, this Sestercentennial summer has also brought us The British Are Coming: The Graphic Edition, Volume 1 , adapted from t...

When Boston 1775 last looked in on America250 , the commemorative campaign of the Congressionally-established Semiquincentennial commission...

In 2019 Ric Detwiller published an excellent article at the Journal of the American Revolution about a Frenchman recruited as a provincial...

Earlier this month I visited Medford Community Media to chat with Laura Duggan of Looking Back at Medford History about The Road to Concor...

On 18 July 1776, 250 years ago today , the Declaration of Independence was officially proclaimed in Massachusetts. People had already hea...

This month the city of Boston announced a new finding about a stone in the Granary Burying Ground that reads: HERE LYES Ye. BODY OF BOSTON...

Since September 2025 I’ve been following the dispute over displays at the President’s House, part of Independence National Historical Park ...

As recounted yesterday , on 21 Oct 1776 Boston’s committee of correspondence, inspection, and safety questioned Elizabeth and Mary Hill ab...

Back in April I wrote a series of postings about John Hill , his wife Elizabeth (?), and their daughter, captured on board the brig Elizabe...

On Sunday, 19 July, the Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge will host a commemoration called “H...

History Camp Boston will take place on 7–9 August, with the main gathering on Saturday the 8th. As in recent years, the main venue will b...

This is a very busy summer for Plays in Place , which works with historic sites to create new plays built on their past, informed by their a...

Theaters on either side of Massachusetts are offering Revolutionary musicals in this Independence Day season. Through Sunday, 19 July, at ...

On 9 July 1776, 250 years ago today , Heinrich Miller ’s Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote newspaper printed the first translation of the Declar...

As quoted yesterday , Edward Rutledge hoped that John Jay would return to the Continental Congress by 1 July so he could help to argue a...