18th Century Material Culture

The American Revolution

A Town Occupied

The Great Town

of
Boston

A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA

by William Price 1769
(Norman B. Leventhal Map Center)

A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA

by William Price 1769

Grays Wharf
Grins Wharf

Fort Hill

Long Wharf

A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA

by William Price 1769

A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA

by William Price 1769

A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA

by William Price 1769

A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA

by William Price 1769

A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA

by William Price 1769

Murphys
Barracks
Old
Brick
Church

School Street

Cornhill

Town House King Street

A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA

by William Price 1769

Old Brick
Church

Custom
House

Dock
Square

Faneuil Hall

Murrays Barracks
Town
House Brattle Street Church

BOSTON & its ENVIRONS

VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCHs House on the Road to DORCHESTER
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)

VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCHs House on the Road to DORCHESTER
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)

VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCHs House on the Road to DORCHESTER
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)

Castle William
Likely by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)

VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCHs House on the Road to DORCHESTER
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)

VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCHs House on the Road to DORCHESTER
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)

VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCHs House on the Road to DORCHESTER
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)

VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCHs House on the Road to DORCHESTER
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)

Hutchinson

Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Hutchinson of Boston

by Edward Truman
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Hutchinson

(Private Collection)

Pope - Knight
Boston

South End Forever. / North End Forever. Extraordinary VERSES on POPE - NIGHT.
Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston 1768
(Library of Congress)

South End Forever. / North End Forever. Extraordinary VERSES on POPE - NIGHT.
Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston 1768
(Library of Congress)

South End Forever. / North End Forever. Extraordinary VERSES on POPE - NIGHT.
Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston 1768
(Library of Congress)

South End Forever. / North End Forever. Extraordinary VERSES on POPE - NIGHT.
Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston 1768

October 1, 1768
The British Army Arrives in Boston

 A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29th
and 14th Rigiments on the first of October 68 as taken from ye end of Long War by: Cristian Remick.
One of Six Known Versions of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

 A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29th
and 14th Rigiments on the first of October 68 as taken from ye end of Long War by: Cristian Remick.
One of Six Known Versions of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

 A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29th
and 14th Rigiments on the first of October 68 as taken from ye end of Long War by: Cristian Remick.
One of Six Known Versions of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

 A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29th
and 14th Rigiments on the first of October 68 as taken from ye end of Long War by: Cristian Remick.
One of Six Known Versions of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

 A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29th
and 14th Rigiments on the first of October 68 as taken from ye end of Long War by: Cristian Remick.
One of Six Known Versions of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

 A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29th
and 14th Rigiments on the first of October 68 as taken from ye end of Long War by: Cristian Remick.
One of Six Known Versions of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

 A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29th
and 14th Rigiments on the first of October 68 as taken from ye end of Long War by: Cristian Remick.
One of Six Known Versions of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

 A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29th
and 14th Rigiments on the first of October 68 as taken from ye end of Long War by: Cristian Remick.
One of Six Known Versions of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

 A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29th
and 14th Rigiments on the first of October 68 as taken from ye end of Long War by: Cristian Remick.
One of Six Known Versions of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE BLOCKADE OF BOSTON

One of Six Knows Versions of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

Perspective View of Boston Harbour.

Pen & Ink Watercolor Version of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
Dedicated to Bostonian Shipwright Gibbens Sharp
(New England Genealogical Society)

Perspective View of Boston Harbour.

Pen & Ink Watercolor Version of this Work by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick c. 1768
Dedicated to Bostonian Shipwright Gibbens Sharp
(New England Genealogical Society)

A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON IN NEW ENGLAND AND BRITISH SHIPS OF WAR LANDING THEIR TROOPS

by Paul Revere c. 1770

(American Antiquarian Society)

A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON IN NEW ENGLAND AND BRITISH SHIPS OF WAR LANDING THEIR TROOPS

by Paul Revere c. 1770

A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON WITH SEVERAL SHIPS OF WAR IN THE HARBOUR
after Paul Revere as Illustrated in the Royal American Magazine - January 1774
(New York Public Library)

A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON WITH SEVERAL SHIPS OF WAR IN THE HARBOUR
after Paul Revere
(John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)

A Perspective View of the Town of Boston, the Capital of New England, and of the Landing of Troops in the Year 1768, ...
by Edes & Gill 1770
(John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)

The British Army

Occupies Boston

A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons

by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick 1768
(The Concord Museum)

A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons

by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick 1768
(The Concord Museum - Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)

A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons

by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick 1768
(The Concord Museum - Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)

A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons

by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick 1768
(The Concord Museum - Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)

A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons

by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick 1768
(The Concord Museum - Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)

A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons

by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick 1768
(The Concord Museum - Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)

A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons

by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick 1768
(The Concord Museum - Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)

A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons

by Boston Artist & Master Mariner Christian Remick 1768
(The Concord Museum - Photo Courtesy Joel Bohy)

Boston Merchants Elizabeth (Murray) Smith & Her Brother, Justice of the Peace, James Murray
Owner of Murrays Barracks - Warehouse where H.M. 29th Regiment of Foot was Quartered
by John Singleton Copley c.1769 & c.1763
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, & Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire)

Revere Engraved Pass or Certificate

Ralph Morgan, Montross at His Majestys North - Battery, in Boston
A Pass for Ralph Morgan, Montross at His Majesys North Batter in Boston
Engraved by Paul Revere
(American Antiquarian Society)

A Pass for Ralph Morgan, Montross at His Majesys North Batter in Boston
Engraved by Paul Revere
(American Antiquarian Society)

The Sons of Liberty

An Alphabetical List of the Sons of Liberty who dind at Liberty Tree, Dorchester August 14, 1769
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

The Death
of
Christopher Seider

The Pall of Christopher Seiders Con

Boston Broadside
c. 1773

Boston Broadside
c. 1773

POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS...

by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston, Published by Arch. Bell, London, Sept. 1, 1773

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