Capt. Thomas Barnard and the Signal from Old North Last spring I wrote a bunch of postings about the debate over who hung the signal lanterns from Old North Church on 18 Apr 1775, John Pul...

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Shedding Light on the Lanterns Debate There are two big reasons I think the late-1870s debate over whether sexton Robert Newman or vestryman John Pulling hung the lanterns in...

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The Debate Over Newman and Pulling The Rev. John Lee Watson was pretty relentless in arguing his claim that John Pulling , not Robert Newman , had hung the lanterns in Old N...

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Another Version of the Story of John Pulling I’ve been quoting the letter published in the 20 July 1876 Boston Daily Advertiser that first publicly credited John Pulling with having h...

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Pulling on the Run Yesterday we left merchant captain John Pulling (1737-1787) in Boston’s North End with the royal authorities seeking to question him abou...

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John Pulling and the Lanterns in the Old North Steeple In 1875 Old North Church celebrated the centennial of the start of the Revolutionary War and the role that its steeple had played in that...

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