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Thomas Hutchinson. 9 September 1711 - 3 June 1780. Thomas Hutchinson, historian, chief justice, and royal governor of Massachusetts, was born in Boston to a wealthy merchant family. Always an advocate for Massachusetts, Hutchinson disapproved of the tax legislation Parliament imposed on the colonies, but once the laws were enacted, he believed ...
Bernard Bailyn’s The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson reexamines the career of the vilified colonial governor. In doing so, Bailyn recasts Hutchinson as a dedicated civil servant who was unfairly dragged into ignominy by English governmental inaction on one hand and future revolutionaries such as John Adams, James Otis, and Benjamin Franklin on the other.
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. Bernard Bailyn. Paperback. ISBN 9780674641617. Publication date: 01/01/1976. “This book,” Bernard Bailyn writes, “depicts the fortunes of a conservative in a time of radical upheaval and deals with problems of public disorder and ideological commitment.”. It is at the same time a dramatic account of the ...
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Thomas Hutchinson was born in Boston in 1711. He graduated from Harvard College in 1727 and married Margaret Sanford in 1734. A merchant and historian, he served as provincial assemblyman, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, councillor, lieutenant governor, chief justice, and the last colonial governor of Massachusetts.
Thomas Hutchinson was the last royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony before the American Revo-lution. A Bostonian by birth, he became a Loyalist and was duly deemed a traitor by the rebelling colonists (who looted his mansion while protesting the 1765 Stamp Act). During this tumultuous period Hutchinson
