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CHARLES EDWIN BEALE, son of Ambrose and Caroline A. (Andrews) Beale, was born in Bowdoin, Me., August 10, 1845, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1870. He
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studied law with A. P. Gould at Thomaston, Me., and graduated at the National University Law School in Washington, D. C. He was admitted to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in 1872, and to the Suffolk bar January 19, 1877. He was in the United States Treasury Department from 1864 to 1867, and special agent of the Interior Department from 1870 to 1876. He edited Gateley's Universal Educator and Gateley's World's Progress. His residence is in Dorchester.
JOSEPH H. BEALE, jr., son of Joseph H. and Frances E. Beale, was born in Dor- chester, October 12, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. Since 1890 he has been a lecturer in the Harvard Law School. He married Elizabeth C. Day at Barnstable, Mass., December 23, 1891, and lives in Dorchester. He was a joint editor of the eighth edition of "Sedgwick on. Damages."
GEORGE F. BEAN, son of Stephen S. and Nancy E. (Colby) Bean, ' was born in Bradford, N. H., March 24, 1862, and was educated at Colby Academy, New London, N. H., and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law with S. C. Eastman at Concord, N. H., and in the office of Ropes, Gray & Loring, Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He was in 1891 mayor of Woburn, where he resides, and where he married E. Maria Blodgett, of Watertown, in Sep- tember, 1886.
WILLIAM DUDLEY is said by Washburn to have been the first educated lawyer on the Common Pleas bench. He was the son of Governor Joseph Dudley, and was born in Roxbury in 1686. He graduated at Harvard in 1704. He was a representa- tive many years and speaker from 1724 to 1728. He was chosen to the Council in 1729, and continued a member until 1740. He was a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county from 1728 to 1731, and from 1733 to his death, Au- gust 10, 1743. He married a daughter of Addington Davenport.
ANTHONY STODDARD, son of Simeon, was born in 1678, and died March 11, 1748. He was a representative and member of the Council from 1735 to 1742. He gradu- ated at Harvard in 1697, and was judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county from 1733 till his death.
ELIAKIM HUTCHINSON Was a member of the Council from 1744 to 1746, and was made judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1741. He succeeded Edward Hutchinson as chief justice in 1752, and remained until the Revo- lution.
EDWARD WINSLOW, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Winslow, and grand- son of John, of Boston, who came to Plymouth in the Fortune in 1621, and married Mary Chilton, one of the Mayflower passengers, was born in Boston in 1669. He was treasurer of Suffolk county at the time of his death and had served as sheriff from December 12, 1728, to October 20, 1743, when he was made judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county, and continued on the bench until his death in December, 1753.
SAMUEL WATTS was a Suffolk county man who was a member of the Council from 1742 to 1763. He was made a judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1748, and continued on the bench until 170, in which year on the 12th of March he died.
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SAMUEL WELLES was a member of the Council in 1747 and 1748 and many years a member of the House of Representatives from Boston. He was made judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1755, and remained on the bench until his death, May 20, 1770. He was a very prominent man in the province and was appointed a member of various commissions looking after its welfare.
NATHANIEL HATCH Was born in Dorchester, and graduated at Harvard in 1742. He was made a judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1771, and at the Revo- lution, being a loyalist, left the country. He died in 1780.
JOSEPH GREENE was appointed judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county July 3, 1772, and left the bench December 31st in the same year. He was a loyalist, and left the country at the Revolution.
THOMAS HUTCHINSON, jr., son of Governor Thomas Hutchinson, graduated at Har- vard in 1758, and was appointed judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county December 31, 1772, and being a loyalist left the country at the Revolution, and died in England in 1811.
BENJAMIN GRIDLEY was a barrister, and graduated at Cambridge in 1751. He was appointed judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in May, 1775, and his was the last appointment made by a royal governor. He went to Halifax in 1776, and in 1778 was proscribed. He probably died in England.
RICHARD NICHOLS was one of the commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, appointed by the government in England in 1664 to visit the colonies and hear and determine all matters of complaint. He was the first English governor of New York after its conquest by the United Colonies in 1664. He left New York in 1667 and returned to England.
SIR ROBERT CARR Was one of the commissioners of Oyer and Terminer mentioned above. He returned to England and died in 1667.
GEORGE CARTWRIGHT Was another of the commissioners mentioned above. He re- turned to England in 1665, and on his voyage was captured by the Dutch.
SAMUEL MAVERICK, another of the commissioners mentioned above, was the son of Rev. John Maverick, of Dorchester. He was born in England about 1602, and died at New York, where he resided after 1665.
JOHN COGGAN was a merchant who acted as an attorney in the courts of Boston under the colonial charter.
AMOS RICHARDSON Was a tailor who acted as an attorney during the life of the Massachusetts Colony.
JOHN WATSON was a merchant who acted as attorney in the days of the Colony.
BENJAMIN BULLIVANT was the first attorney-general and was appointed about 1686. He was a physician and apothecary and acted as an attorney in the courts.
ANTHONY CHECKLEY was a merchant who acted as an attorney in the colonial courts. He was appointed attorney-general June 14, 1689, and reappointed under the province charter October 28, 1692.
SIMON LYNDE was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July 27, 1686, by Joseph Dudley during his short administration.
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EDWARD RANDOLPH was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July 27, 1686, by President Dudley.
RICHARD WHARTON Was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July 27, 1686, by President Dudley.
JOHN USHER, son of Hezekiah and born in Boston in April, 1648, was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July 27, 1686, by President Dudley. He was a bookseller.
GILES MASTERS Was sworn in as an attorney in 1686, and died in 1688.
CHRISTOPHER WEBB Was sworn in as an attorney in 1686.
SAMUEL SHRIMPTON was a appointed by Andros in 1687 judge of the Superior Court.
CHARLES LIDGET was one of the associate judges of the Superior Court appointed by Andros in 1687.
GEORGE FARWELL succeeded Benjamin Bullivant as attorney-general and continued in office until June 20, 1688. He came from New York and was sent to England with Andros in February, 1689.
JAMES GRAHAM succeeded George Farwell as attorney-general June 20, 1688, and with Andros and Farwell was sent to England in February, 1689.
THOMAS NEWTON Was sworn as an attorney June 8, 1688, and was appointed attor- ney-general in 1718, holding that office until May 28, 1721. He was born in Eng- land, June 10, 1660, and was educated there. He was a deputy judge of the Court of Admiralty and comptroller of the customs for the port of Boston. He died May 28, 1721.
KING was an attorney in the days of Andros.
SAMUEL HAYMAN was an attorney during the close of the seventeenth century, and from 1692 to 1702 was a judge of the Common Pleas Court for Middlesex county.
JOHN WEST came from New York and was an attorney about the time of the union of the colonies in 1692.
JOHN PALMER superseded Joseph Dudley as chief justice of the Superior Court in 1688. He was sent to England with Andros in February, 1689.
ROBERT MASON acted as a judge under Andros. He lived in Portsmouth and died in 1686.
JOHN HINKS belonged to Portsmouth and was a member of the Council in 1697 and its president. He came from England about 1670 and married at an unknown date Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Christian Fryen. He was living at Newcastle, N. H., in 1722, and died before April 25, 1734. His descendants have spelled their names in various ways. General Edward Winslow Hincks, of Cambridge, is among the number.
SAMUEL THAXTER, of Hingham, was appointed in 1735 special justice of the Su- perior Court to act in a case in which the city of Boston was interested.
THOMAS BERRY, of Ipswich, a physician, was appointed special justice of the S11- perior Court in 1735 to act in a case in which the city of Boston was interested. .
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BENJAMIN PRESCOTT, of Groton, was appointed in 1735 special justice of the Su- perior Court in a case involving the interests of the city of Boston. He was born in 1696, and died in August, 1738.
SYLVANUS BOURNE, son of Meltiah, of Sandwich, was appointed in 1747 special jus- tice of the Superior Court, and June 2, 1758, was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Barnstable county. At his death, September 18, 1763, he was chief justice, and also judge of probate.
JOSEPH PYNCHON, of Hampshire, was appointed special justice of the Superior Court in 1747.
JOHN JEFFRIES was appointed in 1748 special justice of the Superior Court.
THOMAS HUBBARD, of Boston, a representative, speaker of the House, and member of the Council, was appointed in 1748 special justice of the Superior Court.
JOSIAHI QUINCY, son of Josiah, of Braintree, and great-grandson of Edmund Quincy, who was born in Wigsthorpe, England, in 1602, was born in Boston, Febru- ary 23, 1744, and graduated at Harvard in 1763. He studied law with Oxenbridge Thacher and became a leading lawyer and orator. He was one of the counsel for Captain Preston and others engaged in the Boston massacre. He stood side by side with the prominent patriots of his time and while he saw that conflict with the mother country was inevitable, he was not deterred from taking the boldest stand against the usurpations which were threatening it. In the old South Church, when the band of men disguised as Indians passed it on their way to the tea ships in the harbor, he exclaimed: "I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast on our hori- zon, the thunders roll, and the lightnings play, and to that God who rides on the whirlwind and directs the storm, I commit my country." In September, 1774, he sailed for England to consult with friends of the patriots there, but the seeds of pul- monary disease which had begun to germinate in his system were destined to pre- vent his return. On his way home, almost within sight of the shores of Massachu- setts Bay, he died April 26, 1775. He married in 1769 Abigail Phillips ..
JOSIALI QUINCY, son of Josiah and Abigail (Phillips) Quincy, was born in Boston, February 4, 1772. He was fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy and grad- uated at Harvard in 1790. From April 18, 1859, to his death he was the oldest living graduate. He studied law with William Tudor, and at a meeting of the Suffolk bar held July 9, 1793, it was voted that he "be recommended to the Court of Com- mon Pleas for the oath of an attorney of that court." In 1800, at the age of twenty- eight, he was nominated candidate for Congress by the Federal party and defeated. In 1804 he was chosen member of the State Senate and also member of Congress, taking his seat at Washington in 1805, and holding it until 1813, when he declined a re-election. While in Congress he opposed the embargo and moderately the war with England. In a speech delivered January 4, 1811, in opposition to the admission of Louisiana as a State, he announced for the first time the doctrine of secession. He said: "I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which com- pose it are free from their moral obligations; and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some to prepare definitely for a departure, amicably if they can, violently if they must." In 1814 he was again a member of the State Senate, re-
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maining until 1821. In 1821-2 he was speaker of the House of Representatives, re- signing, when ou the 16th of January, 1822, he was appointed judge of the Municipal Court of Boston. While a member of the Senate he was chosen a delegate also to the Constitutional Convention of 1820. In 1823 he resigned the office of judge and on the 14th of May Peter O. Thatcher was appointed to succeed him. While on the bench in the trial of Joseph Tinker Buckingham for libel against Rev. John N. Maf- fit, he announced the rule that the publication of the truth with good intentions was not libel. From 1823 to 1828 he was mayor of Boston, and on the 15th of January, 1829, he was chosen president of Harvard College and held that position until 1845. Among his literary works may be mentioned, orations on the Fourth of July in Bos- ton in 1798 and 1826, orations at the second centennial of Boston, September, 1830, and of Harvard in 1836, a History of Harvard University, History of the Boston Atheneum, Municipal History of Boston, Memoir of Josiah Quincy, jr., his father, and a Memoir of John Quincy Adams. He married, June 6, 1797, Eliza Susan, daughter of John Morton, of New York, a descendant of George Morton, who was the father of Nathaniel Morton, the secretary of Plymouth Colony, and who came to Plymouth in the Ann in 1623. He died at Quincy, July 1, 1864. He received the degree of Mas- ter of Arts from Yale in 1792, and LL. D. from Harvard in 1824.
JOSIAH QUINCY, son of Josiah and Eliza Susan (Morton) Quincy, was born in Bos- ton, January 17, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1824, but after a few years became engaged in business pur- suits. He was a councilman from 1833 to 1837, the last five years president of the Council, and in 1842 was president of the State Senate. From 1845 to 1849 he was mayor of Boston and was many years treasurer of the Western Railroad, as the road was called extending from Worcester to Albany, and treasurer of the Boston Atheneum. He married Mary Jane, daughter of Samuel R. Miller. He died at Quincy, November 2, 1882.
JOSIAH PHILLIPS QUINCY, son of Josiah and Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, was born in Boston, November 28, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1856. He is the author of several dramas and political essays. He married, December 23, 1858, Helen Fanny, daughter of Judge Hunt- ington.
SAMUEL MILLER QUINCY, son of Josiah and Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, was born in Boston, June 13, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1856, and became editor of the Monthly Law Reporter. He entered the army during the war as captain in the Second Massachusetts Regi- ment, May 24, 1861, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Seventy-second United States Colored Regiment, October 20, 1863, colonel May 24, 1864, and brevet brigadier-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865. He died unmarried in Keene, N. H., April 24, 1887.
EDMUND QUINCY, Son of Josiah and Eliza Susan (Morton) Quincy, was born in Bos- ton, February 1, 1808, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1830, but devoted himself chiefly to literary labors and to anti- slavery efforts. He published an excellent memoir of his father, and "Wensley, a story without a moral." He married Priscilla, daughter of Daniel P. Parker, of Bos- ton, and died in Dedham, May 17, 1877.
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JOSIAH QUINCY, son of Josiah Phillips and Helen Fanny (Huntington) Quincy, was born in Boston, October 15, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, was representative from Quincy in 1887-88-89-90- 91, secretary of the Civil Service Reform League in 1881, of the Tariff Reform League in 1883, of the Democratic State Executive Committee in 1890, chairman in 1891, and secretary of the National Democratic Committee in 1892. In March, 1893, he was appointed assistant secretary of state by President Cleveland. He is unmarried.
JOSIAH H. QUINCY, son of Samuel H. and Sarah A. Quincy, was born in Rumney, N. H., March 8, 1860, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1884. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of John W. Corcoran, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. His residence is in Boston.
MELVILLE P. BECKETT, son of Joseph and Marcia P. Beckett, was born in Peabody, Mass., October 30, 1860, and studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar at Salem January 28, 1883, His residence is at Peabody.
ABIJAH BIGELOW, son of Elisha and Sarah (Goodrich) Bigelow, was born in West- minster, Mass., December 5, 1775, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1795. He studied law with Samuel Dana at Groton, and Samuel Dexter in Boston, and his name is on the roll of admissions to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court prior to 1807. He prac- ticed in Leominster nineteen years, during which time he was town clerk five years, representative in 1807-8-9, and member of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses. In 1817 he removed to Worcester, and till 1834 was clerk of the courts for Worcester county. He married, April 8, 1804, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Francis and Sarah (Gibson) Gardner, of Leominster, and died August 21, 1857.
EDWARD BICKNELL, son of William E. and Rebecca J. (Richmond) Bicknell, was born in Boston, October 22, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Proctor, Warren & Brig- ham, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 15, 1879. He is now trial jus- tice for Franklin county with a legal residence in Orange. He married at Boston, June 20, 1887, Elizabeth R. Healy, of Weymouth, Mass.
JAMES BENJAMIN, son of Ashur, was born in Boston, April 23, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, and prac- ticed in Boston,
JONATHAN BELCHER, son of Jonathan, governor of Massachusetts, was born in Bos- ton, July 28, 1710, and graduated at Harvard in 1728. He studied law, went to Lon- don, entered the Temple, and practiced law in England. He was one of the first settlers of Halifax, was lieutenant-governor of the Province, and in 1761 was made chief justice. He died in Halifax, March 29, 1776.
JOHN RICHARDS BULLARD, son of William and Mary R. Bullard, was born in Brook- lyn, N. Y., March 3, 1846, and attended the Dedham High School and Phillips An- dover Academy, and graduated at Harvard Law School in 1866. He continued his law studies with Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 4, 1867. He was representative in 1868-70-71, and lives in Dedham. He married Mary A. Richards at Irvington, N. Y., in 1871.
EUGENE LUCIAN BUFFINTON, son of Jonathan and Mary Ann (Churchill) Buffinton, was born in Roxbury, Mass., January 1, 1847, and was educated at the public schools
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and with private tutors. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1880. He married Georgianna, daughter of George Dove, of Boston, January 1, 1868, and resides in Boston.
WILLIAM COLVARD PARKER, son of Samuel T. and Margaret Parker, was born in Wakefield, Mass., April 12, 1858, and attended Boston University and Massachusetts Agricultural College. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He is president of the Agricultural College Alumni Club and of the Boston Common Council. He resides in Boston.
HORATIO G. PARKER, son of Elijah and Sally (Hall) Parker, was born in Keene, N. H., April 26, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth. He studied law in New York in the office of William Curtis Noyes and in Boston in the office of Henry M. Parker, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1847, and to the Massachusetts bar in Middlesex county in 1848. He was a representative in 1854. He married in 1863 at Greenfield, Mass., Harriet Newton, and in 1874, at Greenfield, Lucy S. Newton. His residence is at Cambridge.
HENRY BAYLIES, son of Frederick and Velina Worth Baylies, was born at Edgar- ton, Mass., September 9, 1822, and was educated at Wesleyan University in Con- necticut. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and with Edward H. Bennett and George S. Hale in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Taunton, September, 1870. He was a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1846 to 1870, but abandoned the ministry on account of ill health. His residence is at Malden.
FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER, son of Samuel and Mary (Montgomery) Batchelder, was born in Chelmsford, Mass., April 2, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 20, 1848 .. He was a councilman in Cambridge, where he resided, in 1853-54, and practiced in Boston. He married Susan Cabot Foster, of Cambridge, December 2, 1851, and died at Hibernia, Fleming's Island, Fla., February 9, 1858.
JAMES BOUTINEAU was an attorney in Boston and mandamus counsellor in 1774. He was included in the conspiracy act of 1779 and his estate was confiscated. It was his son-in-law, John Robinson, who made the assault on James Otis in 1769, which probably produced his alienation of mind. His wife was a sister of Peter Faneuil. 1 Mr. Boutineau went to England and there died.
ANDREW CAZNEAU was an attorney and barrister in Boston before the Revolution, and was proscribed in the act of 1778. He went to England in 1775, and finally to Bermuda, where he held office under the crown. He returned to Boston in 1788 and died in Roxbury in 1792. He married in 1769 Hannah, daughter of John Hammock, a merchant of Boston.
THOMAS DANFORTH, son of Samnel, graduated at Harvard in 1762, and was the only attorney in Charlestown. He went to Halifax in 1776, and died in London in 1825.
DAVID GORHAM graduated at Harvard in 1733, and was one of the addressers to Hutchinson in 1774. He died in 1786.
BENJAMIN KENT was born in Charlestown, and graduated at Harvard in 1727. He studied divinity and in 1733 was settled over a church in Marlboro', where he re- mained two years. He next studied law and became a barrister in Boston. As a loyalist he went to Halifax and there died in 1788.
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SAMUEL QUINCY, son of Josiah and brother of Josiah the patriot and orator, was born in Braintree in 1735, and graduated at Harvard in 1754. He studied law, and was appointed solicitor-general of the Province in 1767 to succeed Jonathan Sewall, who had been appointed attorney-general. At the Revolution he adhered to the crown. On the 25th of May, 1775, he sailed for England, and in 1776 was a member of the Loyalist Association in London. He was proscribed and banished by the act of 1778, and in 1779 was appointed "Comptroller of the Customs at the port of Par- ham in Antigua." In 1789, on his passage from Antigua to England, he died at sea, as did his brother Josiah fourteen years before. He was married twice, to a Miss Hill, of Boston, who died in 1782, and to a lady in Antigua, who not long survived him.
SAMUEL FITCH was a barrister in Boston and an addresser of Hutchinson in 1774. He was advocate-general of the Court of Admiralty and solicitor to the Board of Commissioners. He went to Halifax in 1776, and in 1778 was proscribed and ban- ished. He went to England and was a loyalist addresser of the king in 1779. He probably died in England in 1784. He graduated at Yale in 1742 and received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1766.
EZEKIEL CHEEVER, Seth Williams, William Ward, Andrew Oliver, Samuel Danforth, Thomas Hutchinson, the father of the governor, Joseph Richards, John Chandler, Benjamin Lincoln, Samuel White, Joseph Lee, Francis Hooke, Charles Frost, Samuel Wheelwright, Benjamin Browne, John Higginson, John Gardner, James Coffin, Thomas Mayhew, Benjamin Skiffe, William Gayer, Joseph Hammond, Ichabod Plaisted, William Pepperell, John Wheelwright, John Hill, Lewis Bane, John Otis, John Gorham, Samuel Partridge, John Parsons, John Stoddard, Zacheus Mayhew, and Enoch Coffin, belonging in different parts of the province, were appointed be- tween 1692 and 1746 special justices of the Superior Court of Judicature to sit in spe- cial cases and as quasi judges of a court which included Suffolk county within its jurisdiction, they are placed on this register.
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