biography
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| lived:
| (1711–80)
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| biography:
| Colonial governor, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, the great-great grandson of Anne Hutchinson. As chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, he upheld the legality of the Stamp Act (1765). He was governor of Massachusetts during the eventful period preceding the American Revolution (1771–4), and then he moved to England and wrote a valuable history of the Massachusetts Bay colony. |
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