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

Gray’s Wharf Fort Hill Long Wharf

Griffin’s 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

Murphy’s
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

Dock
Custom Square
Old Brick Faneuil Hall
House
Church
Murray’s Barracks
Town
House Brattle Street Church
“BOSTON & its ENVIRONS”
“VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER”
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)
“VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER”
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)
“VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s 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. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER”
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)
“VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER”
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)
“VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER”
by William Pierie, 1773
(British Library)
“VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s 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 Warff 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 Warff 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 Warff 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 Warff 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 Warff 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 Warff 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 Warff 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 Warff 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 Warff 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 Murray’s 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 Majesty’s North - Battery, in Boston
A Pass for Ralph Morgan, Montross at His Majesy’s North Batter in Boston
Engraved by Paul Revere
(American Antiquarian Society)
A Pass for Ralph Morgan, Montross at His Majesy’s North Batter in Boston
Engraved by Paul Revere
(American Antiquarian Society)
The Sons of Liberty
“An Alphabetical List of the Sons of Liberty who din’d at Liberty Tree, Dorchester August 14, 1769”
(Massachusetts Historical Society)
 The Death
of
Christopher Seider
The Pall of Christopher Seider’s Coffin
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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