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LEVERETT SALTONSTALL TUCKERMAN, son of John Francis and Lucy (Saltonstall) Tuckerman, was born in Washington, D. C., April 19, 1848, and graduated at Har- vard in 1868. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and finishing his law studies in Salem in the office of Perry & Endicott, was admitted to the bar in Salem in 1872. He is unmarried and resides in Boston.
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FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN, son of Edward and Sophia (May) Tuckerman, was born in Boston, February 4, 1821, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, 1844. He married, June 17, 1847, Hannah L. B., daughter of David Smith Jones, of Weston, and Hannah Lucinda Whitman, of Lincoln, and died at Greenfield, May 9, 1873.
GEORGE TICKNOR, son of Elisha, was born in Boston, August 1, 1791, and gradu- ated at Dartmouth in 1807. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813, and prac- ticed, if at all, only two years. In 1815 he went to Europe, spending two years at Gottingen and returning home in 1819. During his absence he was appointed pro- fessor of modern languages at Harvard and served fifteen years. In 1835 he again went to Europe, returning in 1840, when he began writing a History of Spanish Literature, which he published in 1849. His lesser works were a Life of Lafayette, a Memoir of William Hickling Prescott, and contributions to the North American Review and other publications. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1850, and died in Boston, January 26, 1871.
PETER OXENBRIDGE THACHER, son of Rev. Peter Thacher, was born in Malden, December 22, 1776, and graduated at Harvard in 1796. He was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in 1801, and May 14, 1823, was appointed the judge of the "Municipal Court in the Town of Boston," serving until his death at Boston, February 22, 1843. On the first of March following the Legislature, believing it best that a judge should not be exclusively devoted to the trial of criminal cases, provided by law that the judges of the Common Pleas Court should be ex officio judges of the Municipal Court.
WALTER H. THORPE, son of Walter and Eliza J. (Ellery) Thorpe, was born in Athol, Mass., October 7, 1867, and was educated at the Athol High School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county, June 21, 1890. His residence is in Newton.
JOHN WELDON THRESHIE, son of Charles and Henrietta C. Threshie, was born in New Orleans, La., August 22, 1863, and was educated at the Pierce Academyin Mid- dleboro', Mass. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of J. Frank Paul, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1877. He was an assistant of John Lathrop, reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court. He resides in Newton.
JAMES L. WALSH Was born in East Boston, March 28, 1843, and was educated at the Lyman Grammar School in Boston and at the College of the Holy Cross in Wor- cester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12, 1872. He was representative in 1877-78, and is a special justice of the East Boston District Court.
CLARENCE STUART WARD, son of Andrew Henshaw and Anna H. W. (Field) Ward, was born in Newton, December 5, 1852, and graduated at the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology in 1872. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 19, 1875. He was a commissioner of the United States at the Paris Exposition in 1889. He makes patent cases and corporation law specialties, and is the author of "Wit, Wisdom and Beauties of Shakespeare," published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company in 1887. He lives unmar- ried in the Allston district of Boston.
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EDWARD GARRISON WALKER, son of David and Eliza Walker, was born in Boston in 1835, and was educated in Charlestown. He studied law in Boston in the office of Charles A. Tweed, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1861. He was a representative in 1867, and lives in Boston.
JOSEPH WALKER, Son of Joseph H. and Hannah M. Walker, was born in Worcester, Mass., July 13, 1865, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Chaplin & Carret, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1889. He married at Providence, R. I., June 30, 1890, and resides in Brookline.
NATHANIEL UPHAM WALKER, son of Joseph B. and Elizabeth L. Walker, was born in Concord, N. H., January 14, 1855, and graduated at Yale in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Jewell, Field & Shepard, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 14, 1881. He married in Boston, June 6, 1888, Helen F. Dunklee, and resides in Boston.
CHARLES PINCKNEY SUMNER Was born in Milton, Mass., January 20, 1776, and grad- uated at Harvard in 1796. He studied law in Boston with George Richards Minot, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1800. He was high sheriff of Suffolk county froin 1825 to 1839, and died in Boston, April 2, 1839.
CHARLES SUMNER, son of Charles Pinckney Sumner, was born in Boston, January 6. 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1834, and was admitted to the bar in that year. Soon after his admission he was appointed reporter of the Circuit Court, and in 1835-36-31-43 he was a lecturer in the Harvard Law School, and in 1851 succeeded Daniel Webster as United States sena- tor. In 1848 he allied himself with the Free Soil party and advocated the election of Van Buren and Adanis in the presidential campaign of that year. His election by the Legislature to the Senate in 1851 was the result of a coalition of the Free Soil men with the Democrats, who received their share by the election of George S. Boutwell for governor, the election of that officer coming to the Legislature in consequence of a failure to elect by the people. His career in the Senate was marked by a constant and effective attack on the strongholds of slavery, and, perhaps, next to Garrison no man did more to bring about that condition of affairs which resulted in the email- cipation of the slave. He continued in the Senate until his death. In the line of his profession in 1831 he became editor of the American Jurist, in 1836 he edited " Dun- lap on Admiralty," from 1828 to 1839 he published three volumes of Circuit Court Re- ports, and jointly with Jonathan C. Perkins edited " Vesey's Chancery Reports" in twenty volumes. His most noted speeches were " The Crime against Kansas," " Freedom is National, Slavery Sectional," and the "Barbarism of Slavery," deliv- ered in the Senate, and " The True Grandeur of Nations," " The Scholar, the Jurist, the Artist, the Philanthropist," "Fame and Glory," "White Slavery in the Barbary States," "Law of Human Progress," " Finger-Point from Plymouth Rock," "Land- mark of Freedom," "The Anti-Slavery Enterprise," "Position and Duties of the Merchant," "Our Foreign Relations," "The Case of Florida," "Eulogy of Abra- ham Lincoln," "Our Claims on England," on various occasions, a collection of which was published in two volumes in 1850 and 1856. He married Alice, widow of Stur- gis Hooper, of Boston, and daughter of Jonathan Mason, of Boston, and died in Washington, March 11, 1874.
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ROBERT RANTOUL, son of Robert, was born in Beverly, Mass., August 13, 1805, and graduated at Harvard in 1826. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1831, and after a short season of practice in South Reading established himself in Gloucester in 1833, and in 1838 removed to Boston. He was representative from Gloucester from 1833 to 1837, and collector of the port of Boston from 1843 to 1845. He was appointed United States district attorney for Massachusetts in 1845, holding the office until 1849, and United States senator for the unexpired term of Mr. Webster in 1851, and member of Congress from 1851 to his death, which occurred at Washington, August 7, 1852.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT, son of Col. Wm. Prescott, was born in Pepperell, Mass., Au- gust 19, 1762, and graduated at Harvard in 1783. After teaching school a short time at Brooklyn, Conn., and Beverly, Mass., he studied law with Nathan Dane, of Bev- erly, and was admitted to the bar in 1787, establishing himself in Beverly for three years and then removing to Salem. He was a representative from Salem and sena- tor from Essex county. In 1808 he removed to Boston. In 1814 the Boston Court of Common Pleas was established, of which Harrison Gray Otis was the first judge, ap- pointed on the 16th of March in that year, succeeded by William Minot, appointed March 2, 1818, who was followed by Mr. Prescott, appointed April 21, 1818. He served until May 11, 1819, when he was succeeded by Artimas Ward, the last judge of that court. In 1814 he was a delegate to the Hartford Convention, and in 1820 a member of the State Constitutional Convention. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1824, and died in Boston, December 8, 1844.
EDWARD GOLDSBOROUGH PRESCOTT, son of Judge William, was born in Salem, Jan- uary 2, 1804, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 14, 1828, but after practicing a few years studied divinity, and in 1837 was settled as an Episcopal clergyman in New Jersey. He died April 4, 1844.
JOHN PICKERING, son of Col. Timothy Pickering, was born in Salem, February 17, 1177, and graduated at Harvard in 1796. He studied law with Edward Tilghman in Philadelphia and in Salem, and was admitted to the bar of Essex county in 1806. While pursuing his studies he was in 1797 secretary of legation to William Smith, United States minister at Portugal, and in 1799 private secretary of Rufus King, United States minister to England. He practiced in Salem until 1827, when he re- moved to Boston, where he was city solicitor from 1829 until his death, which occurred in Boston, May 5, 1846. He was a representative from Salem, and a senator from both Essex and Suffolk counties. He was also a member of the Executive Council. Dis- tinguished as he was in the profession of law, he was quite as distinguished as a philologist, and was the author of "Vocabulary of Americanisms," "The Uniform Orthography of the Indian Language," "Indian Languages of America," of articles on the Chinese language, the Cochin Chinese language, and other languages, and of a Greek and English Lexicon. He was familiar with French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, German, Romaic, Greek and Latin, and more or less so with Dutch, Swed- ish, Danish and Hebrew. He had also studied Arabic, Turkish, Syriac, Persian, Coptic, Sanscrit, Chinese, Malay, and the Indian languages of America. In 1806 he was appointed professor of Hebrew at Harvard, and received the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1822 and Harvard in 1835. He died in Boston, May 5, 1846.
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OCT.WIE'S PICKERING, son of Col. Timothy Pickering, was born in Wyoming, Penn., September 2, 1192, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law with his brother John in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1816. He practiced in Boston, and in 1822 was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Su- preme Judicial Court, his reports comprising twenty-four volumes, beginning with the Berkshire term in September, 1822, and ending with the Essex term in 1839. He died in Boston, October 29, 1868.
JAMES WINTHROP PICKERING, Son of James Farrington and Sarah (Pike) Pickering, was born in Boston, March 26, 1848, and was educated at the Boston public schools. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1869. He married Alice Aurelia, daugh- ter of Oliver Lawrence and Mary (Whitney) Wheeler in 1880, and resides in Boston.
JOHN PHILLIPS, son of William and Margaret (Wendell) Phillips, was born in Bos- ton, November 26, 1770, and graduated at Harvard in 1788, and was admitted to the bar in 1791 or 1792, as in the latter year his name is found in the list of Suffolk law- yers. On the 29th of August, 1809, he was appointed one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas, and from 1803 to 1823 he was a member of the Senate, serving as its president the last ten years. He was the first mayor of Boston, serving in 1822 and 1823. He died in Boston, May 29, 1823. He married Sally, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Hurd) Walley.
WENDELL PHILLIPS, son of John and Sally (Walley) Phillips, was born in Boston, November 29, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in September, 1834. The current of anti-slavery sentiment then developing in Massachusetts swept him away from his profession, and soon after his admission he abandoned the law and devoted his time and talents to the anti-slavery cause. His maiden oratorical effort was in support of resolutions at a meeting in Faneuil Hall in 1837, condemning the murder of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, of Alton, Ill. It is unnecessary to recount in this register the incidents in the life of a man so well known and whose career has been so thoroughly published to the world. Un- like Mr. Garrison, who considered his life work done when the cause of emancipation was triumphant, he lent his energies to other reforms and continued until his death the advocate of temperance, labor reform, and woman suffrage. He died in Boston, February 2, 1884. He married Anne Terry Greene.
THOMAS WALLEY PHILLIPS, son of John and Sally (Walley) Phillips, and brother of Wendell, was born in Boston, January 16, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law with Lemuel Shaw in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Mid- dlesex county in November. 1819. He was a councilman in Boston in 1827, a repre- sentative from 1834 to 1837, and was appointed by Judge Peter Oxenbridge Thacher in 1830 clerk of the Boston Municipal Court, serving in that capacity until his death, which occurred at Nahant, September 8, 1859. He married in Boston, March 18, 1824, Anna Jones, daughter of Samuel Dunn, of Boston.
GRENVILLE TUDOR PHILLIPS, son of John and Sally (Walley) Phillips, was born in Boston, August 14, 1816, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. He studied law in Bos- ton in the offices of Peleg Sprague and William Gray, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in October, 1839. He devoted but little of his time to his profession, and after 1845 spent most of his time in Europe. He died in Saugus, May 25, 1863.
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WILLARD PHILLIPS Was born in Bridgewater, Mass., December 19, 1784, and grad- nated at Harvard in 1810, where he was tutor after his graduation until 1815. He then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in October, 1818. He was for a time an assistant editor of the North American Review, and in 1825- 26 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. On the 3d of May, 1839, he was appointed judge of probate for Suffolk county and continued in office until 1847, when on the 17th of December he was succeeded by Edward Greeley Lor- ing. He was then made president of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany in Boston and continued in that office until his death, which occurred at Cam- bridge, September 9, 1873. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1853.
JOHN PHILLIPS, was born in Charlestown in 1631. He was judge of admiralty, treas- urer of the Province, and judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex county from 1692 to 1715. He died at Charlestown, March 20, 1726.
STEPHEN HENRY PHILLIPS, son of Stephen C. and Jane (Appleton) Phillips, was born in Salem, August 16, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 6, 1846. He was for a tinie editor of the Law Reporter, district attorney of Essex from 1851 to 1853, and attorney-general by election from 1858 to 1861. In 1866 he went to Honolulu and was attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands from 1866 to 1873, and minister of foreign affairs. On his return to the United States he practiced law for a time in San Francisco, and has been since engaged in his profession with offices in Salem and Boston. He married, October 3, 1871, Margaret, daughter of James HI. and Mary (Willis) Duncan, of Haverhill, Mass.
JONATHAN COGSWELL PERKINS, was born in Ipswich, Mass., November 21, 1809, and graduated at Amherst in 1832. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1835. He was State senator in 1847, and in 1848 was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court, remaining on the bench until the dissolution of the court in 1859. He edited several volumes of Pickering's Re- ports with Notes, Chitty's Criminal Law, Chitty on Contracts, Jarman on Wills, Ab- bot on Shipping, Daniell's Chancery Practice, Collver on Partnership, and was the author of a treatise on Arbitrations and Awards. He died in Salem, December 12, 1877.
EDWARD GRIFFIN PARKER, was born in Boston, November 16, 1825. He studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1849. In 1859 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. He was chairman of the committee to whom was referred that part of the message of Governor Banks relating to the purchase of the Hancock house for an executive residence, and the writer who was with him at the Senate Board and aided him in his efforts, bears willing testimony to the energy and eloquence displayed by him in advocating the purchase. During the war he was a volunteer aid on the staff of General B. F. Butler, and afterwards as- sistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Martindale. He was the author of "Golden Age of Oratory," and an exceedingly interesting book entitled "Reminis- cences of Rufus Choate." He died in New York city, March 30, 1868.
SAMUEL ALLYNE OTIS, son of Col. James Otis, was born in Barnstable, Mass., No- vember 24, 1740, and graduated at Harvard in 1759. He studied law, but relin-
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quished it and became a Boston merchant. The writer is not certain that he was ever admitted to the bar. He was a representative in 1176, and in 1784 speaker of the House. He was a member of Congress in 1758, and afterwards secretary of the United States Senate. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Harrison Gray, of Boston, and was the father of Harrison Gray Otis. He died at Washington, D. C., April 22, 1>14.
GEORGE ARTHUR PERKINS, son of Levi and Elizabeth (Sands) Perkins, was born in Cambridge. September 4, 1556, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1576. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in May 1876, and to the United States Circuit Court April 3, 1882. He was a representative from Cambridge in 1×86-57- 9. and his residence is still in that city.
HENRY GROVER PERKINS, son of Francis W. and Laura (Simonds) Perkins, was born in Fitzwilliam. N. H., July 16, 1865, and graduated at Harvard in 188 ;. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Jan- uary 15, 1890. He lives in the Dorchester district of Boston.
DANIEL LEONARD, a graduate of Harvard in 1760, is spoken of in 1770 as a barris- ter at the Suffolk bar. He belonged to Taunton. He was at the meeting of the Suffolk bar held January 3, 1110, at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern on the corner of State and Kelly streets, to form a Bar Association. He died in 1829.
BENJAMIN HICHBORN graduated at Harvard in 1768 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1772. He died in 1917.
ELISHA THAYER, son of Ebenezer Thayer, of Braintree, graduated at Harvard in 1767, and studied law with John Adams. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1174, and died in the same year.
JOHN BULKLEY graduated at Harvard in 1:69. and after studying law with Josiah Quincy was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1772, and died in 1774.
EDWARD WAIKER studied law with Samuel Quincy and was probably admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1115.
THOMAS EDWARDS graduated at Harvard in 1771, and studied law with Josiah Quincy. He was admitted to the Supreme Court in 1784 and to the Common Pleas at an earlier date. He died in 1806.
NATHANIEL COFFIN, after practicing two years in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, was admitted to the Superior Court in Suffolk in 1173.
JONATHAN WILLIAMS, son of Inspector General John Williams, graduated at Har- vard in 1172, and studied law with John Adams. He was admitted in 1715, and died in 1:50.
EDWARD HILL, son of Alexander, of Boston, graduated at Harvard in 1772, and studied law with John Adams. He was admitted in 1715, and died the same year.
JOHN TRUMBULL. probably the painter, graduated at Harvard in 1713, and entered the office of John Adams in 1774. He died in 1843.
NATHANIEL BATTELLE graduated at Harvard in 1765, and entered the office of Sampson Salter Blowers in 1174. He died in 1816.
PEREZ MORTON, son of Joseph and Amiah (Bullock) Morton, was born about 1751, and graduated at Harvard in 1771. He studied law with Josiah Quincy, and was
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admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk in July, 1774. He was appointed attorney-general September 7, 1810, and was succeeded by James T. Austin, May 24. 1832. He died in 1837.
JOSHUA THOMAS, son of William and Mercy Logan (Bridgham) Thomas, was born in Plymouth in 1751, and graduated at Harvard in 1172. He studied law in the office of Josiah Quincy, and was probably admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was on the staff of General John Thomas early in the Revolution, but finally settled in his native town, where he became judge of probate, a member of the Committee on Cor- respondence, and the first president of the Pilgrim Society. He married Isabella Stevenson, of Boston, and died at Plymouth in 1821.
DANIEL NEWCOMB graduated at Harvard in 1768, and after studying law with John Lowell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1:18. He became judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and died in 1818.
SAMUEL DOGGETT graduated at Harvard in 1115, and studied law with Perez Mor- ton. He was admitted to the bar in 1780, and died in 1×17.
HENRY GOODWIN graduated at Harvard in 1778, and studied law in Boston with William Tudor, and died in 1789.
RUFUS GREENE AMORY graduated at Harvard in 1718, and studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted to the bar in 1781. He died in 1833.
JAMES HUGHES graduated at Harvard in 1780. He studied law with Benjamin Hichborn, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1780. He died in 1799.
ISRAEL KEITH graduated at Harvard in 1971, and was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1780. He died in 1819.
PETER CLARKE graduated at Harvard in 1717, and studied law with Increase Sum- ner. He died in 1792.
BENJAMIN LINCOLN graduated at Harvard in 1767, and studied law in Worcester with Levi Lincoln, and in Boston with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1781. He died in 1788.
WILLIAM HUNTER TORRENS, of Charleston, S. C., studied law in the office of John Lowell in 1781, and was probably admitted to the Suffolk bar.
WILLIAM HUNT graduated at Harvard in 1168, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1780. He died in 1804.
JONATHAN FAY graduated at Harvard in 1178, and studied law with Benjamin Hichborn. He was admitted to the bar in 1781, and died in 1811.
WILLIAM WETMORE was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1:81, and was a barrister in 1787. In 1811 the Circuit Courts of Common Pleas were established and in the Middle Circuit, of which Suffolk county formed a part, Mr. Wetmore, of Boston, was appointed associate justice.
JOSEPH HALL graduated at Harvard in 1:81, and studied law with Benjamin Hich- born. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1784. He was appointed judge of pro- bate for Suffolk county September 6, 1825, and was succeeded by John Heard, March 15, 1836. He died in 1848.
EDWARD WENDELL graduated at Harvard in 1:81, and studied law with John Lowell. He died in 1841.
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DAVID LEONARD BARNES graduated at Harvard in 1780, and studied law with James Sullivan and Daniel Leonard. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1783. He be- came judge of the United States District Court, and died in 1812.
EDWARD GRAY graduated at Harvard in 1782, and studied law with James Sulli- van, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1785. He died in 1810.
JOHN BROWN COTTING studied law in the office of John Lowell in 1983, and was probably admitted to the bar in 1785.
SAMUEL QUINCY, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1782, and read law in the office of Christopher Gore. He was admitted to the bar in 1786, and died in 1816.
HARRISON GRAY OTIs, son of Samuel Allyne Otis, was born in Boston, October 8, 1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1783. He studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1786. He was a representative in 1796, member of Congress form 1797 to 1801, United States district attorney in 1801, representative again and speaker from 1803 to 1805, president of the State Senate from 1805 to 1811. He was appointed March 16, 1814, judge of the Boston Court of Common Pleas, and was succeeded by William Prescott, April 21, 1818. He was United States senator from 1817 to 1822, and mayor of Boston from 1829 to 1832. In 1814 he was a men- ber of the Hartford Convention. He married in Boston Sally, daughter of William and Grace (Spear) Foster, and died in Boston, October 28, 1848.
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