Boston 1775

On 1 Sept 1776, 250 years ago today , North Carolina brigadier general Griffith Rutherford wrote a letter to the body that had commissioned...

Earlier this summer the National Park Service issued a series of reports about the triumphal arch proposed for Memorial Circle in Washington...

On the morning of 30 Aug 1776, 250 years ago today , Gen. William Heath was stationed at Kingsbridge, New York , on the Hudson River just n...

Robert Parkinson is the author of The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution , its distillation as Thirteen Cloc...

After I started reading intently about the Revolution in New England, one of the first living historians I remember chatting with was Henry ...

On 9–10 Oct 2026, Fort Tionderoga will host a Special 250th Conference on “Arnold’s Defeat or Ultimate Victory?: Perspectives on the 1776 C...

Last month the Independent newspaper reported on the identification of remains from the Revolutionary War using a relatively new method. ...

A new online resource of information about the start of the Revolutionary War launched last month: J. Bohy Historical Consulting . This is...

Back in 2017, the Writer’s Bone website featured a very complimentary review of The Road to Concord by site co-founder Daniel Ford. I th...

In late 1783, Benjamin Davis, Sr. , and Benjamin Davis, Jr., sailed out of New York harbor, their second evacuation to Canada in the cours...

The record of Benjamin Davis, Sr. ’s appearance before the Loyalists Commission in Canada states of his time in New York : He was then a ...

In June 1777, as quoted here , the Massachusetts General Court voted to send imprisoned Loyalist Benjamin Davis, Jr., with his father to ...

By 1777, both sides of the Revolutionary War held a significant number of prisoners . Some of those people were soldiers or sailors captur...

As the year 1777 began, the Loyalist Benjamin Davis remained in the Boston jail along with his son and an enslaved servant. Davis refus...

During the siege of Boston , Benjamin Davis, Sr. , signed up for the Loyal American Association, which appears to have been a pro-Crown mili...

In the newspaper reports on the May 1775 fire on Boston’s Town Dock, Benjamin Davis ’s name appears only as the man who used to use (“impr...

On 25 May 1775, one week after the New-England Chronicle ’s initial, hazy report on the fire that started in the 65th Regiment’s barracks, ...

We can see the spread of news in the spring of 1775 through articles on the fire in Boston on the night of 17–18 May 1775. The first prin...

Yesterday I quoted the first newspaper account of the fire at the 65th Regiment ’s barracks on the Town Dock, rented from the Loyalist m...

When the British army returned to central Boston in 1774, Benjamin Davis, Sr. , rented his store on the south side of the Town Dock as a b...