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1775 - Boston Environs Resources

What might you deduce about the 1775 Boston atmosphere from the following resources?


1701-1766 and 1767-1799 Timelines

Revolutionary War Unit
( Boston Public Schools Classroom Educator)

Roxbury During the Siege of Boston
(National Park Service)



Feb. 14, 1775
John Hancock suggests forming a militia
(State Library of Massachusetts)
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February, 1775
General Gage Instructs His Troops
(Massachusetts Historical Society)
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April 18, 1775
Colonial Version - Bloody Butchery
(Massachusetts Historical Society)
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April 18, 1775
British Version - A Circumstantial Account
(Massachusetts Historical Society)
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April 23, 1775
Provincial Congress seeks men to enlist

May 9, 1775
Call for inventory of available arms
(State Library of Massachusetts)
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April 23, 1775
Arms and equipment needed for each soldier
(State Library of Massachusetts)
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Joseph Warren, Provincial Congress
A Call to Raise an Army, April 30, 1775
(Massachusetts Historical Society)
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Agreement to disarm the Town of Boston
Permits for Boston outsiders if not bring weapons
Joseph Warren, April 30, 1775
(Massachusetts Historical Society)
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May 22, 1775
Impending publication of the Provincial Congress Depositions
(Massachusetts Historical Society)
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May 5, 1775
Provincial Congress Election
Disobey Gage
(State Library of Massachusetts)
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May 3, 1775
Depositions compiled for England
(Library of Congress, Journals of the Continental Congress)
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April 23, 1775
Permission to swear in depositors
(Journal of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress
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April 26, 1775
Provincial Congress Counterattacks
(Journal of the Continental Congress)
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April 26, 1775
To Britain: Hostilities Here
(Journal of the Continental Congress)
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SUFFOLK COUNTY:

Paul Revere Deposition, Boston
(Mass. Historical Society)

MIDDLESEX COUNTY:

Captain John Parker Deposition, Lexington
(National Archives)



MIDDLESEX COUNTY

Hannah Adams Deposition, Cambridge
(Mass. Historical Society)

Rachel and Benjamin Cooper, Cambridge

James Marr, Concord

(Mass. Historical Society)

DEPOSITIONS OF KING'S TROOPS:
(Mass. Historical Society)

Edward Thornton Gould 1, 2, 3

John Bateman

CLASSROOM TESTED IDEAS:

British in the Countryside
Letters from Looney Lobster
"War Is" poems
Simulated town meeting
Mob action parody


Site Resources:

NARA; Massachusetts Historical Society; State Library of Massachusetts
National Park Service, Boston; Roxbury; Minuteman National Historic Park, Concord, MA.


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