Growing Up in the Gore Family: Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Boston

Sunday, January 19 @ 3 pm

Christopher Gore grew up in a family on the verge of entering Boston’s genteel class. But at the start of the American Revolution, his father sided with the Royal government and left America in 1776. This talk explores the difficult choices that one family worked through.

J. L. Bell maintains the Boston 1775 website, providing daily servings of history, analysis, and unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New
England.