Many different men rode out as news of the British marching into the countryside to seize colonial arms reached Roxbury-raised Dr. Joseph Warren after dark on April 18, including one from Jamaica Plain.

PeopleJamaica Plain Historical SocietyApril 14, 2005Walter H. Marx, Revolutionary War

The Detestable Tea: The Greenough Family and the Boston Tea Party

n 1773, brothers David and John Greenough found themselves embroiled in a bitter controversy, the boycott of tea imported by the East India Company that led to the Boston Tea Party. In December 1773, John Greenough, then a merchant, bought tea salvaged from the William, a ship that went ashore on Cape Cod. This placed him in direct conflict with his neighbors, his town, and his family in Boston where his father and brother were active in the movement to resist Royal authority.

PeopleJamaica Plain Historical SocietyMarch 14, 2005Merchant, Revolutionary War