On March 5, 1770, Matthew Kilroy shot Samuel Gray to death during the Boston Massacre. Kilroy had fought with Gray earlier, and...
Prominent Rhode Island politician Martin Howard might have thought twice about publicly supporting the Stamp Act of 1765. It was the British government’s...
Massachusetts’ former colonial Gov. Thomas Hutchinson lived in unhappy exile in England while the American Revolution raged in his native land. He’d...
Boston merchant John Rowe knew everyone involved in the run-up to the American Revolution, and he quickly learned about the Battles of...