biography
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| lived:
| (1710–63)
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| biography:
| Judge, born in Cohasset, Massachusetts, USA. The son of poor parents, he was to have learned a trade when, crippled by the loss of a limb, he was sent to Harvard instead. He went on to become a successful lawyer with political interests represented Boston in the Massachusetts General Court (1757–59). He served briefly as chief justice of New York, a post he obtained with the help of a political ally. He had begun to collect material for a projected history of New England at the time of his death. |
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