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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.

As governor of colonial Massachusetts between 1760 and 1769, Francis Bernard was charged with shoring up British imperialism during the first period of sustained American opposition to the authority of the King-in-Parliament. The documentary record of the middle years (1766 and 1767) of Bernard's troubled administration reveals a governor at odds with his American charges and discomfited by the knowledge that his British masters did not apprec...

The second volume of The Papers of Francis Bernard records the reaction of the royal governor of colonial Massachusetts to the tumultuous events surrounding the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765. Because the response to the new legislation in Boston set the pattern for the reaction of all the other colonies, these letters constitute firsthand observations on the birth of the American movement for independence.

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.

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Thomas Hutchinson was the leading spokesman in colonial America for opposition to the Revolutionary movement. Because of his Loyalist sympathies his letters have languished unpublished in the Massachusetts Archives. This first volume of his correspondence begins with his emergence on the political stage in 1740 and covers the events of the French and Indian War, his controversial appointments as lieutenant-governor and chief justice, and the S...

Successful Boston lawyer, active member of the Sons of Liberty, and noted political essayist, Josiah Quincy Junior (1744-1775) left a lasting impression on those he met. Gathered in this, the sixth and final volume of the Quincy Papers, are his surviving correspondence, his essays for the Boston Press written between 1767 and 1774, and his pamphlet Observations, which was the culmination of his thinking and writing about balancing imperial aut...

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.

Governor Francis Bernard's historical reputation rests on his role in pushing the American colonists toward revolution. Bernard was the kind of government official without whom revolutions might not occur: a thwarted modernizer, despairing of metropolitan inertia and resentful of local power shifts that undermined his own authority, he sought and found retribution in a hostile portrayal of his opponents and critics.

Gathers together nineteen essays first delivered at the Winterthur Museum's 2013 Furniture Forum. It amply illustrates how research concerning one of America's most productive centres of furniture-making has diversified in the forty years since the Colonial Society of Massachusetts published Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, the proceedings of a similar conference held in 1973.

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The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor" constitutes the collection of the earliest and most complete set of records pertaining to poor relief in early America. In a substantial introduction, the editor Eric Nellis describes the process by which the Overseers of the Poor, a board made up of generally wealthy merchants elected by the town meeting, attempted to distinguish between the "deserving" poor, eligible for "ou...

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Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into theextraordinary mind of a patriot in the period immediately preceding the Revolution, the Portrait of a Patriot series presents the major papers of the Boston lawyer andpatriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775). In this, the third of five volumes, wemeet Quincy as a rising member of the Massachusetts bar and a member of the BostonCommittee of Correspondence, making a tour of the ...