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What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “The Coach-Making Business in all its Branches is carried on as usual.” Adino Paddock, a coachmaker in Boston, regularly placed newspaper advertisements in the late...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “A second-hand Coach, a Variety of second-hand Chaises.” Adino Paddock, a coachmaker, occasionally advertised in Boston’s newspapers in the late 1760s and...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Boston Weekly News-Letter (June 8, 1769). “He will take second-hand Chaises in Pay for new.” Adino Paddock offered several methods for consumers to acquire carriages...
Returning to The Saga of the Brazen Head, I’ll share some Bostonians’ experiences of the Great Fire of 20 Mar 1760, which began after dark in that brazier’s shop.At that time David Mason was a decorative painter four days short of his...
At 9:00 A.M. on Monday, 12 Sept 1768, Bostonians (well, white men with enough property to qualify for the vote and the economic freedom to take a morning off from work) gathered at Faneuil Hall for an emergency town meeting.The event started with...
June is so full of Sestercentennial developments that I’ve fallen behind the anniversaries already. So let’s get right to what happened in Boston 250 years ago today, on 4 June 1768.That date was King George III’s thirtieth birthday....
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? Massachusetts Gazette (May 19, 1768).“Said Paddock will take second hand Chaises in part Pay for new.” In the late 1760s Adino Paddock operated a workshop “Where...
We left Sarah Deming and her family on the morning of 21 Apr 1775 at the house of the Rev. William Gordon in Roxbury, relieved that the British army had not attacked that site as feared.Nevertheless, Deming and her female companions decided they had to...
Here’s another report of the removal of cannon from Charlestown and Boston in September 1774 which I came across only last week. It’s a letter from Deborah Cushing to her husband Thomas Cushing (shown here), speaker of the Massachusetts House....
This summer the Commonwealth Museum at the Massachusetts Archives is featuring a small exhibit titled “Castle Island: A Storied History.”It features documents from the government’s collection related to the harbor island first fortified...
What was advertised in a colonial newspaper 250 years ago this week? Boston Post-Boy (June 23, 1766).“Said PADDOCK has always a Number of second-hand Chaises to dispose of.” Coachmaker Adino Paddock made a variety of appeals intended to incite...
News that Parliament had repealed the Stamp Act arrived in Boston on 16 May 1766, as described yesterday. That quickly set off a public celebration.The town’s newspaper printers collaborated on a broadside announcing the news from London (readable...
On Sunday, 14 June, Gore Place in Waltham is inviting the public to view its newly renovated (and recently relocated) carriage house. This structure dates to 1793, thus making it even older than the brick mansion that defines the Gore Place estate.Christopher...
The highest-ranking British officer to be killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill was Lt. Col. James Abercrombie, commander of a special battalion of grenadiers. Sometimes Salem Poor is credited with shooting Abercrombie rather than the most popular target...
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