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See also:HUTCHINSON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1711-1780) , the last royal See also:governor of the See also:province of See also:Massachusetts, son of a wealthy See also:merchant of See also:Boston, See also:Mass., was See also:born there on the 9th of See also:September 1711. He graduated at Harvard in 1727, then became an apprentice in his See also:father's counting-See also:room, and for several years devoted himself to business. In 1737 he began his public career as a member of the Boston See also:Board of Selectmen, and a few See also:weeks later he was elected to the See also:General See also:Court of Massachusetts See also:Bay, of which he was a member until 1740 and again from 1742 to 1749, serving as See also:speaker in 1747, 1748 and 1749. He consistently contended for a See also:sound See also:financial See also:system, and vigorously opposed the operations of the " See also:Land See also:Bank " and the issue of pernicious bills of See also:credit. In 1748 he carried through the General Court a See also:bill providing for the cancellation and redemption of the outstanding See also:paper currency. Hutchinson went to See also:England in 1740 as the representative of Massachusetts in a boundary dispute with New See also:Hampshire. He was a member of the Massachusetts See also:Council from 1749 to 1756, was appointed See also:judge of See also:probate in 1752 and was See also:chief See also:justice of the See also:superior court of the province from 1761 to 1769, was See also:lieutenant-governor from 1758 to 1771, acting as governor in the latter two years, and from 1771 to 1774 was governor. In 1754 he was a delegate from Massachusetts to the See also:Albany See also:Convention,and, with See also:Franklin, was a member of the See also:committee appointed to draw up a See also:plan of See also:union. Though he recognized the legality of the See also:Stamp See also:Act of 1765, he considered the measure inexpedient and impolitic and urged its See also:repeal, but his attitude was misunderstood; he was considered by many to have instigated the passage of the Act, and in See also:August 1765 a See also:mob sacked his Boston See also:residence and destroyed many valuable See also:manuscripts and documents. He was acting governor at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the " Boston See also:Massacre " in 1770, and was virtually forced by the citizens of Boston, under the leadership of See also:Samuel See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams, to See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order the removal of the See also:British troops from the See also:town. Throughout the pre-Revolutionary disturbances in Massachusetts he was the re-presentative of the British See also:ministry, and though he disapproved of some of the ministerial See also:measures he See also:felt impelled to enforce them and necessarily incurred the hostility of the Whig or Patriot See also:element. In 1774, upon the See also:appointment of General Thomas See also:Gage as military governor he went to England, and acted as an adviser to See also:George III. and the British ministry on See also:American affairs, uniformly counselling moderation. He died at See also:Brompton, now See also:part of See also:London, on the 3rd of See also:June 1780.
He wrote A Brief Statement of the Claim of the Colonies (1764); a Collection of See also:Original Papers relative to the See also:History of Massachusetts Bay (1769), reprinted as The Hutchinson Papers by the See also:Prince Society in 1865; and a judicious, accurate and very valuable History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (vol. i., 1764, vol. ii., 1767, and vol. iii., 1828). His See also:Diary and Letters, with an See also:Account of his Ad-ministration, was published at Boston in 1884–1886.
See See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James K. See also:Hosmer's See also:Life of Thomas Hutchinson (Boston, 1896), and a See also:biographical See also:chapter in See also:John See also:Fiske's Essays See also:Historical and See also:Literary (New See also:York, 1902). For an estimate of Hutchinson as an historian, see M. C. See also:Tyler's Literary History of the American Revolution (New York, 1897).
End of Article: HUTCHINSON, THOMAS (1711-1780)
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