Massachusetts Events

Lowell, MA created as factory town

Boston Manufacturing formed

Massachusetts ratified federal Constitution

Massachusetts state constitution ratified

Gen. Howe ordered British evacuation of Boston; Loyalists who had not already left the city fled with the British to Nova Scotia; Siege of Boston ended.

Cannons taken from Ft. Ticoderoga and brought across country to Boston were mounted in the hills of Dorchester and aimed at the British occupying Boston Harbor.

Siege of Boston

Boston Tea Party

Boston Massacre

Stamp Act