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1765 Revolution Rising - The Quartering Act
.In March 1765, the British Parliament passed the Quartering Act to address the practical concerns of troop deployment in the British American colonies. Under the terms of this legislation, each...
View Article1766 Revolution Rising - The Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act of 1766 was a British Law, passed in mid March by the Parliament of Great Britain, that was passed at the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed. The colonists celebrated the...
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1767 Revolution Rising - The Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts of 1767 were a series of laws which set new import taxes on British goods including paint, paper, lead, glass and tea and used revenues to maintain British troops in America and to...
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1768 Revolution Rising - 1768 & 1774 Non-Importation Agreements
Colonial resistance to British control took many forms, perhaps the most effective was the general success of the non-importation agreements. Such agreements appeared as early as 1766. They had a...
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1770 Revolution Rising - The Boston Massacre
.American opposition to the British authorities kept steadily rising as assemblies were dissolved, the houses of citizens searched, and troops distributed in increasing numbers among the centers of...
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1772 Revolution Rising - The Gaspee Affair
The Gaspee Affair occurred on June 9, 1772. The HMS Gaspee, a British customs ship, ran aground in Rhode Island and a Sons of Liberty group attacked and set fire to the ship. The British Government...
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1773 Revolution Rising - The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party, December 17, 1773Victory in the French and Indian War was costly for the British. At the war's conclusion in 1763, King George III and his government looked to taxing the American...
View Article1774 Revolution Rising - Boston Port Act
.On this day in 1774, British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city’s residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth (in today’s money) of tea...
View Article1774 Revolution Rising - Administration of Justice Act
.Worried by the courts that convened in America and in Massachusetts in particular, and their bias toward the colonists over their British governors, on May 20, 1774, the Parliament passed the...
View Article1774 Revolution Rising - Massachusetts Government Act
.When Massachusetts was first chartered, a council of inhabitants was formed, the 28 members of which were to be chosen annually by the people of the colony. This bit of democratic representation was...
View Article1774 Revolution Rising - Second Quartering Act
.A second Quartering Act (citation 14 Geo. III c. 54) was passed on June 2, 1774, as part of a group of laws that came to be known as the Intolerable Acts. The acts were designed to restore imperial...
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1700s American Mothers & Children
1753-54 John Wollaston (fl 1736-1767). Mrs Daniel Carroll II (1731-1763) & Daniel Carroll 1752-1790.1755 Unknown Artist Mother and Child.1757 John Hesselius Mrs Matthew Tiglman Anna Lloyd & dau...
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1700s American Mothers & Children by Ralph Early 1751-1801
1788 Ralph Earl (1751-1801). Martha Tennent (Mrs David Rogers) and Daughter.1790 Ralph Earl (1751-1801). Mary Floyd (Mrs. Benjamin Tallmadge) with Son Henry Floyd and Daughter Maria Jones.1790 Ralph...
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1700s American Mothers & Children by Charles Willson Peale 1741-1827
1790 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827) Sarah Cantwell Jones (Mrs. Robert Milligan) and Child.Unlike the mothers with children painted by his conemporary artist Ralph Earl in...
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George Washington's celebrated, enslaved cook, Hercules
Attributed to Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) Assumed to be a Portrait of Hercules, George Washington's Cook, 1797Hercules was an enslaved African held at Mount Vernon, George Washington's Virginia...
View ArticleThe diary & sad life of Mary Wright Cooper (1714-1778) of Oyster Bay, NY
.After examining the upbeat, even lyrical, letters & memoranda of South Carolinian Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793), it seems clear that we need to look at another view of American colonial life...
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A few 1760s-90s London prints of women doing domestic chores
London printmakers published hundreds of popular & satirical mezzotints between 1760 and 1800, many of which quickly found their way to the British American colonies and later to the new republic....
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London Prints of women in country dress - 1767 Calendar
.London printmakers published hundreds of popular & satirical mezzotints between 1760 and 1800, many of which quickly found their way to the British American colonies and later to the new...
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Home-bred fashions or taste A-La-Mode?? A little satire & a few London...
Just as British American colonials were recognizing that they were developing into a far different society than the hereditary and aristocratic world of the mother country, they were in the midst of a...
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Manners - 16-year-old George Washington's transcription of Rules of Civility...
.Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation copied from a French book by schoolboy George Washington by the age of 16. Samuel King (American artist, 1749-1819) George Washington...
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