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

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

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 “A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA” by William Price 1769

Gray’s Wharf 

Gri!n’s Wharf 

Fort Hill Long Wharf  

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 “A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA” by William Price 1769

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 “A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA” by William Price 1769

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 “A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA” by William Price 1769

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 “A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA” by William Price 1769

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 “A New Plan of Ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in AMERICA” by William Price 1769

Old Brick Church

 TownHouse

CustomHouse

Brattle Street Church

Dock Square

Murray’s Barracks

Faneuil Hall

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 “BOSTON & its ENVIRONS” 

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 “VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER” 

by William Pierie, 1773(British Library)

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 “VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER” by William Pierie, 1773

(British Library)

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 “VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER” by William Pierie, 1773

(British Library)

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 “Castle William” Likely by William Pierie, 1773

(British Library)

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 “VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER” by William Pierie, 1773

(British Library)

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 “VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER” by William Pierie, 1773

(British Library)

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 “VIEW of BOSTON, the Capital of NEW ENGLAND from Col. HATCH’s House on the Road to DORCHESTER” by William Pierie, 1773

(British Library)

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Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Hutchinson of Boston

by Edward Truman(Massachusetts Historical Society)

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Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Hutchinson(Private Collection)

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 “South End Forever. / North End Forever. Extraordinary VERSES on POPE - NIGHT.” 

Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston 1768(Library of Congress)

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 “South End Forever. / North End Forever. Extraordinary VERSES on POPE - NIGHT.” 

Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston 1768(Library of Congress)

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 “South End Forever. / North End Forever. Extraordinary VERSES on POPE - NIGHT.” 

Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston 1768(Library of Congress)

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 “South End Forever. / North End Forever. Extraordinary VERSES on POPE - NIGHT.” 

Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston 1768

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 “ A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29thand 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)

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 “ A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29thand 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)

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 “ A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29thand 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)

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 “ A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29thand 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)

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 “ A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29thand 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)

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 “ A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29thand 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)

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 “ A Perspective View of the Blockad of Boston Harbour, Islands & men of war and the landing the 29thand 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)

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 “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)

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 “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)

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 “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)

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

by Paul Revere c. 1770

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 “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)

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 “A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON WITH SEVERAL SHIPS OF WAR IN THE HARBOUR” 

after Paul Revere(John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)

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 “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)

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 “A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons” 

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

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 “A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons” 

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

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 “A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons” 

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

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 “A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons” 

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

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 “A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons” 

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

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 “A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons” 

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

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 “A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons” 

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

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 “A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons” 

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

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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)

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Revere Engraved Pass or CertificateRalph 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)

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 A Pass for Ralph Morgan, Montross at His Majesy’s North Batter in BostonEngraved by Paul Revere

(American Antiquarian Society)

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 The Pall of Christopher Seider’s Co!n

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 “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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