| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1775/03/17 | Col Hancock's elegant seat (house, lost), situate near the Common, is attacked by a number of British officers, who, with their swords, cut and hack the fence, behave abusively by breaking people's windows and insulting almost every person they meet. | Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston |
| 1775/04/00 | Michael Cresap leads over 140 Maryland riflemen to Boston, the first troops from south of the Mason-Dixon line to join General Washington. | Michael Cresap House, Oldtown |
| 1775/04/19 | American militia lay siege prevent British troops from leaving Boston. | Fort Washington, Cambridge, MA |
| 1775/07/00 | Siege of Boston, George Washington | Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Cambridge, MA |
| 1775/08/10 | Elihu Adams, captain of the Braintree Company, dies of dysentery in camp on the Charles River in Cambridge. Captain Adams is buried in the Old Section of the Union Cemetery in Holbrook, Massachusetts. | Holbrook, Massachusetts |
| 1775/10/10 | Colonel Quincy makes a note on a pane of glass - Governor Gage sail'd for England with a fair wind | Josiah Quincy House, Quincy |
| 1776/01/00 | With the right wing of the patriot army camped in Roxbury, First Commander John Thomas uses his own residence as his headquarters. | Roxbury Heritage State Park, Boston |
| 1776/02/00 | John Goddard is employed as a wagon-master by the Continental Army during the Fortification of Dorchester Heights, a nighttime act that requires the wagons to be as quiet as possible to avoid notice. | Dorchester Heights National Historic Site, Boston |
| 1776/03/04 | John Bent marches to Dorchester Heights where the Patriots are erecting batteries that will be able to deliver ordinance on Boston. | Dorchester Heights National Historic Site, Boston |
| 1776/03/04 | John Thomas leads his division to fortify the Dorchester Heights overlooking the south harbor at Boston using cannon that Henry Knox brought from Fort Ticonderoga. | Dorchester Heights National Historic Site, Boston |
| 1776/03/07 | When the Enemy first discovered our Works in the morning, they seemed to be in great confusion... - General Washington to President of the Continental Congress John Hancock, 7-9 March | Dorchester Heights National Historic Site, Boston |
| 1776/03/17 | After failing to enforce His Majesty's laws, the British Navy evacuates 11,000 British troops and some 1,000 Loyalists from Boston and set sail to the safety of Halifax, Nova Scotia. | Long Wharf and Customhouse Block, Boston |
| 1776/04/00 | Edward Winslow, a loyalist to the Crown during the American Revolution, moves with his family to New York before eventually settling in Halifax. | Mayflower House Museum, Plymouth, MA |
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