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Those who chose to remain loyal to the British crown included Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson. But was he a traitor – or simply a public servant doing his job? (Runtime 2:52) This video was supported by a generous grant from Americana Corner and the American Battlefield Protection Program.
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.
11 de jun. de 2018 · Thomas Hutchinson (1711-1780), American governor of colonial Massachusetts and a staunch defender of English colonial policy, was also a jurist and historian. Thomas Hutchinson was born in Boston on Sept. 9, 1711. He entered Harvard at the age of 12, graduating 3 years later.
Thomas Hutchinson (9 de septiembre de 1711 - 3 de junio de 1780) fue un hombre de negocios, historiador y un destacado político leal de la Provincia de la Bahía de Massachusetts en los años anteriores a la Revolución Americana. Se le ha referido como " la figura más importante en el lado leal en la revolucionaria Massachusetts ".
Governor Thomas Pownall, who in 1757 recommended Hutchinson’s appointment to the lieutenant governorship in a letter of elaborate praise—“He has (and deserves, I will pawn my credit and honor upon it) universally the best character of any man in this continent, both as to his head and heart”—left Massachusetts three years later enraged at the conduct of his associate.
Thomas Hutchinson. Thomas Hutchinson (1711-1780) was an American-born Loyalist and colonial administrator who became a figure of derision and hatred during the revolutionary period. Born in Boston and educated at Harvard, Hutchinson entered colonial politics in the late 1730s and came to hold a number of important positions.
HUTCHINSON, THOMAS (1711–1780)Thomas Hutchinson, described by his biographer, Bernard Bailyn, as "the most distinguished, as well as the most loyal, colonial-born official of his time," was the leading exponent of "Tory" constitutional theory at the outbreak of the american revolution.
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