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The second volume of Thomas Hutchinson's correspondence covers the years 1767 through 1769. Hutchinson's papers have always been among the most basic sources for historians writing about Boston in the 1760s and 1770s, and the publication of this volume is a valuable step toward making this content widely accessible.

The story of the origins of the first Anglican congregation established in Boston and New England, Kings Chapel, is significantly shaped by the gradually emerging imperial policies of the government of Charles II during the late seventeenth century.

George Thatcher served as a US representative throughout the Federalist Era - the most critical period of American constitutional history. Written over his forty-year career, the over two hundred letters and writings selected for this edition will appeal anyine looking for an encyclopaedic resource on the Founding generation.

British Regulars marched into Boston at midday on Saturday, 1 October 1768. For weeks there had been rumours that the landing would be resisted. But by four in the afternoon the two regiments were parading on the Common without incident. This fifth volume of the Bernard Papers examines the evidence and debates as they unfolded in Boston and London.

Beautifully illustrated, this collection of essays will introduce the reader to a rich, surprising, thought-provoking and entirely new view of early New England. Eleven essays written by historians, archaeologists, art and architectural historians, and literary scholars recast our understanding of New England by setting its material and visual culture in new contexts.

Sir Francis Bernard (1712-1779) was the royal governor of colonial Massachusetts from 1760 to 1769. His letters and other incidental papers provide insight into the personalities and bitter controversies agitating Boston in the pre-Revolutionary period. This book includes his letters.

Helps you meet Quincy as a rising member of the Massachusetts bar and a member of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, making a tour of the southern colonies to assess the depth of commitment to the patriot cause there. This work shows how Quincy was dazzled by the opulence and sophistication of late-eighteenth-century Charleston society.