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Maverick
Samuel Maverick establishes a fishing outpost on Noddle's Island, now East Boston -
Blackstone
William Blackstone builds his house on a peninsular people call place of clear water -
Winthrop
John Winthrop comes to Boston to create " a city upon a hill". -
Hutchison
Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
Dyer
Mary Dyer was an English Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
Philips War
King Philips was an Indian rebellion against continuing Puritan incursions into Native American lands. -
Glover
Annie Glover was hanged in Boston amidst mocking shouts from the crowd. -
Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex in colonial Massachusetts. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
Hutchinson
The Sons of Liberty ransack the home of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson. -
British
Two british regiments arrive in Boston; the siege of the Manufactory House occurs. -
Seider
Chistopher Seider was killed in a political fight in Boston. His funeral became a major political event, and his killing heightened tensions that erupted into the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. -
Boston
The Boston Massacre, called the Boston Riot by the English, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British redcoats killed five civilian men. -
Tea Party
Colonists dumped tea in Boston Harbor, in what becomes known as the Boston Tea Party. -
Revere
Paul Revere's Ride is a poem by an American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere -
The Battle
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Bunker Hill
The British seize Breed's Hill after a day of fighting. -
British Evacuation
The British evacuation of Boston was a major victory for the patriots, and Washington's first victory.