Author: Joseph Warren Date: January 16-17, 1771 Source: Fragment of the Medical Day Book, New York: New York Historical Society, Misc Manuscripts “W.” Two sided day book page fragment in Joseph Warren’s handwriting, no signature. Accompanying notation states, “January 20, 1866 – attest Ellis Ames, Canton Massachusetts.” All presently known surviving fragments of Warren’s lost […]
Boston Massacre
Author: Joseph Warren Date: February 2-3, 1771 Source: Two sided day book page fragment in Joseph Warren’s handwriting, no signature. Sold at Kaminski’s Thanksgiving Auction November 30, 2008, Lot 008B for $550 plus 20% buyer’s premium. The document is currently presumed to be in private hands. Images by permission of Kaminski Auctions, Beverly, MA. As […]
Author: Joseph Warren Date: January 23-25, 1771 Source: Two sided day book page fragment in Joseph Warren’s handwriting, no signature. Image courtesy of Mr. John Quinlan, current private owner of the document. Sold by Skinner’s at their books and manuscripts auction 2571B as lot 131 on November 13, 2011 for $858. The auctioneer’s listing notes […]
Note: Yes, there will be a Springtime snow in Boston. Event just rescheduled to March 28, 2018 at 6 PM. See Old South Meetinghouse’s website for the latest information. Each year from 1772 to 1775, massive gatherings of men, women and children were held at Old South Meeting House to commemorate the anniversary of the […]
An ORATION; delivered March 5th, 1773, at the Request of the INHABITANTS of the TOWN of BOSTON; to Commemorate the bloody TRAGEDY of the FIFTH of March, 1770. By Dr. BENJAMIN CHURCH. Impius haec culta novalia miles habebit? Barbarus has segetes? En quo Discordia cives Perduxit miseros? En queis consevimus agros? Virgil. Ecl. I. O […]
by James Lovell Omnes homines natura Libertati student, et CONDITIONEM Servitutis oderunt. Caes. —: Nunc ea petit, quae dare aullo modo possumus, nisi priùus volumus nos bello victos confiteri. Cic. At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Town Meeting assembled, by Adjournment, on Tuesday the 2d Day […]
Date: March 22, 1770 “Benjamin Church, Jun., of lawful age, testify and say, that being requested by Mr. Robert Pierpont, the Coroner, to assist in examining the body of Crispus Attucks, who was supposed to be murdered by the soldiers on Monday evening the 5th instant, I found two wounds in the region of the […]
1 It is not without the most humiliating conviction of my want of ability that I now appear before you. But The sense I have of the obligation I am under to obey the calls of my country at all times, together with an animating recollection of your indulgence exhibited upon so many occasions, has […]
ORATION Delivered at Boston, 6 March 1775 “MY EVER HONOURED FELLOW CITIZENS, It is not without the most humiliating conviction of my want of ability that I now appear before you: but the sense I have of the obligation I am under to obey the calls of my country at all times, together with an […]
Date: March 5, 1772 quis talia fando/Myrmidonum, Dolopumve, aut duri miles Ulyssei, /Temperet a lacrymis. (Vergil, Aeneid Bk. II, 6-8) When we turn over the historic page, and trace the rise and fall of states and empires, the mighty revolutions which have so often varied the face of the world strike our minds and with […]
