Category: American Revolution
By Andrea Antidormi, Old North Foundation Educator
Editor’s Note: In celebration of Women’s History Month, Old North is highlighting…
Last week, December 16th marked the 243rd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, one of the most remembered acts of resistance against…
By Mark Hurwitz
In the spring of 1768, John Hancock’s vessel, the Lydia, pulled into Boston Harbor after a transatlantic voyage.…
It isn’t often that we can know exactly what someone was thinking on a specific date back in 1775, but today is one of those rare days. It was…
By Mark HurwitzWith additional contributions by Gloria Baragona, fifth great-granddaughter of Francis Wells
With all the marrying, death,…
By Rev. Steve Ayres
On March 17, 1776, the Rev. Mather Byles, Jr. second rector of the Old North Church, sailed from Boston to New Brunswick,…
Francis Shaw, who owned Pew #16 in the eighteenth century, was the great-great-grandfather of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
Francis Shaw was born…
By Mark Hurwitz
Major Leonard Vassall, the owner of pews #10 and 11, was born in Jamaica in 1678. Before he moved to Boston in the early…
Capt. Daniel Malcolm was born in Boston in the 1720s. He lived on Fleet Street and attended the Old North Church. He served as a Junior Warden…