Thomas Marshall, Tailor and Town Officer (Boston 1775)

An interesting history-related post from Boston 1775:

Yesterday I tripped across this webpage from the National Daughters of the American Revolution Museum in Washington, D.C., highlighting a portrait from its collection.

The subject is Thomas Marshall (1719-1800), a Boston tailor. That profession included very poor men and rather rich ones. Marshall was on the rich side, as the mere existence of this portrait shows. He served as colonel of the Boston militia regiment and a selectman.

Marshall shows up at a number of notable moments in the town’s Revolutionary history:

• When angry merchants confronted pistol-wielding printer John Mein during the non-importation arguments of October 1769, Marshall ...

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