The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution
THOMAS HUTCHINSON. Born in Boston, Sept. 9, 1711. Governor of Massachusetts 1771-4. Died in London June 3, 1780.
History makes men wise. —Bacon. W. B. CLARKE CO. 26 Tremont Street Boston
COPYRIGHTED 1907 BY JAMES H. STARK To The Memory of the Loyalists of The Massachusetts Bay WHOSE FAITHFUL SERVICES AND MEMORIES ARE NOW FORGOTTEN BY THE NATION THEY SO WELL SERVED, THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR
The author wishes to acknowledge the great assistance he has received from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, of which he has been a member for twenty-eight years,—whose library consisting of biographies and genealogies is the most complete in America. Other authorities consulted, have been the Royalist records in the original manuscript preserved in the archives of the State of Massachusetts, the Record Commissioners' Reports of the City of Boston, the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the numerous town histories, and ancient records published in recent years, to the most important of which he has acknowledged his obligations in the reference given, and also to the Boston Athenaeum for the use of their paintings and engravings, in making copies of same.
He also wishes to acknowledge the assistance rendered him by his daughter, Mildred Manton Stark, in preparing many of the biographies, also the assistance rendered by Mr. Thomas F. O'Malley, who prepared the very copious index to this work, which will, he thinks be appreciated by all historical students who may have occasion to use same.
At the dedication of the monument erected on Dorchester Heights to commemorate the evacuation of Boston by the British, the oration was delivered by that Nestor of the United States Senate, Senator Hoar.
These words of our venerable and learned senator and our State Senator Edward B. Callender, seemed strangely unfamiliar to us who had derived our history of the Revolution from the school text-books. These had taught us that the Revolution was due solely to the oppression and tyranny of the British, and that Washington, Franklin, Adams, Hancock, Otis, and the host of other Revolutionary patriots, had in a supreme degree all the virtues ever exhibited by men in their respective spheres, and that the Tories or Loyalists, such as Hutchinson, the Olivers, Saltonstalls, Winslows, Quincys and others, were to be detested and their memory execrated for their abominable and unpatriotic actions.
James Henry Stark
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JAMES H. STARK
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
INTRODUCTION.
THE LOYALISTS OF MASSACHUSETTS
AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
PART II.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
LOYALISTS OF MASSACHUSETTS
The Loyalists of Massachusetts
WHO WERE THE INHABITANTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES AT THE TIME OF THE REVOLUTION?
THOMAS HUTCHINSON.
Governor of Massachusetts 1771-4.
THOMAS HUTCHINSON.
ELISHA HUTCHINSON.
FOSTER HUTCHINSON.
ELIAKIM HUTCHINSON.
ANDREW OLIVER.
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1770-1774.
THOMAS OLIVER.
Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, 1774-1775.
PETER OLIVER.
Chief Justice of Massachusetts.
SIR FRANCIS BERNARD.
Governor of Massachusetts from 1760 to 1769.
SIR WILLIAM PEPPERELL.
Baronet of Kittery, Maine.
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY
KING HOOPER OF MARBLEHEAD.
WILLIAM BOWES.
GENERAL TIMOTHY RUGGLES.
THE FANEUIL FAMILY OF BOSTON.
THE COFFIN FAMILY OF BOSTON.
JUDGE SAMUEL CURWEN.
JAMES MURRAY.
SIR BENJAMIN THOMPSON.
COLONEL RICHARD SALTONSTALL.
REV. MATHER BYLES.
THE HALLOWELL FAMILY OF BOSTON.
THE VASSALLS.
GENERAL ISAAC ROYALL.
GENERAL WILLIAM BRATTLE.
JOSEPH THOMPSON.
COLONEL JOHN ERVING.
MAJOR GENERAL SIR DAVID OCHTERLONY.
JUDGE AUCHMUTY'S FAMILY.
COLONEL ADINO PADDOCK.
THEOPHILUS LILLIE.
DR. SYLVESTER GARDINER.
RICHARD KING.
CHARLES PAXTON.
COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS.
JOSEPH HARRISON.
COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS.
CAPTAIN MARTIN GAY.
DANIEL LEONARD.
JUDGE GEORGE LEONARD.
COLONEL GEORGE LEONARD.
HARRISON GRAY.
Receiver General of Massachusetts.
REV. WILLIAM WALTER.
Rector of Trinity Church, Boston.
THOMAS AMORY.
REV. HENRY CANER.
RECTOR OF KING'S CHAPEL.
FREDERICK WILLIAM GEYER.
THE APTHORP FAMILY OF BOSTON.
THE GOLDTHWAITE FAMILY OF BOSTON.
JOHN HOWE.
SAMUEL QUINCY.
Solicitor-General.
COLONEL JOHN MURRAY.
JUDGE JAMES PUTNAM.
Attorney-general of Massachusetts Bay.
JUDGE TIMOTHY PAINE.
DR. WILLIAM PAINE.
JOHN CHANDLER.
JOHN GORE.
JOHN JEFFRIES.
THOMAS BRINLEY.
REV. JOHN WISWELL.
HENRY BARNES.
THOMAS FLUCKER.
Secretary of Massachusetts Bay.
MARGARET DRAPER.
RICHARD CLARKE.
PETER JOHONNOT.
JOHN JOY.
RICHARD LECHMERE.
EZEKIEL LEWIS.
BENJAMIN CLARK.
AGNES, LADY FRANKLAND.
COLONEL DAVID PHIPS.
THE DUNBAR FAMILY OF HINGHAM.
EBENEZER RICHARDSON.
ROBERT WINTHROP.
NATHANIEL HATCH.
CHRISTOPHER HATCH.
WARD CHIPMAN.
GOVERNOR EDWARD WINSLOW.
SIR ROGER HALE SHEAFFE, BARONET.
JONATHAN SAYWARD.
DEBLOIS FAMILY.
LYDE FAMILY.
JAMES BOUTINEAU.
COLONEL WILLIAM BROWNE.
ARCHIBALD CUNNINGHAM.
CAPTAIN JOHN MALCOMB.
THE RUSSELL FAMILY OF CHARLESTOWN.
EZEKIEL RUSSELL
JONATHAN SEWALL.
Attorney General Of Massachusetts.
THOMAS ROBIE.
BENJAMIN MARSTON.
HON. BENJAMIN LYNDE CHIEF JUSTICE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
PAGAN FAMILY.
THE WYER FAMILY OF CHARLESTOWN.
JEREMIAH POTE.
EBENEZER CUTLER.
APPENDIX.
INDEX.
List of Loyalists of Massachusetts whose names or Biographies are not found in this work.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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