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See also:LOWELL, See also:JOHN (1743-1802) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born in See also:Newburyport, See also:Massachusetts, on the 17th of See also:June 1743, and was a son of the See also:Reverend John Lowell, the first pastor of Newburyport, and a descendant of See also:Perceval Lowle or Lowell (1571-1665), who emigrated from See also:Somersetshire to Massachusetts See also:Bay in 1639 and was the founder of the See also:family in New See also:England. John Lowell graduated at Harvard in 176o, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1763, represented Newburyport (1776) and See also:Boston (1778) in the Massachusetts See also:Assembly, was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional See also:Convention of 1779-1780 and, as a member of the See also:committee appointed to draft a constitution, secured the insertion of the clause, " all men are born See also:free and equal," which was interpreted by the supreme See also:court of the See also:state in 1783 as abolishing See also:slavery in the state. In 1781-1783 he was a member of the See also:Continental See also:Congress, which in 1782 made him a See also:judge of the court of appeals for See also:admiralty cases; in 1784 he was one of the commissioners from Massachusetts to See also:settle the boundary See also:line between Massachusetts and New See also:York; in 1789-1801 he was a judge of the U.S. See also:District Court of Massachusetts; and from 18o' until his See also:death in See also:Roxbury on the 6th of May 1802 he was a See also:justice of the U.S. See also:Circuit Court for the First Circuit (See also:Maine, New See also:Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode See also:Island).
His son, JOHN LOWELL (1769-1840), graduated at Harvard in 1786, was admitted to the bar in 1789 (like his See also:father, before he was twenty years old), and retired from active practice in 1803. He opposed See also:French See also:influence and the policies of the Democratic party, See also:writing many spirited See also:pamphlets (some signed " The Boston See also:Rebel," some " The Roxbury See also:Farmer "), including: The Antigallican (1797), Remarks on the Hon. J. Q. 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's See also:Review of Mr See also:Ames's See also:Works (1809), New England Patriot, being a Candid Comparison of the Principles and Conduct of the See also:Washington and See also:Jefferson Administrations (181o), Appeals to the See also:People on the Causes and Consequences of See also:War with See also:Great See also:Britain (1811) and Mr See also:Madison's War (1812). These pamphlets contain an extreme statement of the See also:anti-war party and defend See also:impressment as a right of See also:long See also:standing. After the war Lowell abandoned politics, and won for himself the See also:title of " the See also:Columella of New England " by his See also:interest in See also:agriculture—he was for many years See also:president of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society. He was a benefactor of the Boston See also:Athenaeum and the Massachusetts See also:General See also:Hospital.
Another son of the first John Lowell, See also:FRANCIS See also:CABOT LOWELL (1775-1817), the founder in the See also:United States of See also:cotton manufacturing, was born in Newburyport on the 7th of See also:April 1775, graduated at Harvard in 1793, became a See also:merchant in Boston, and, during the war of 1812, with his See also:cousin (who was also his See also:brother-in-See also:law), See also:Patrick See also:Tracy See also:Jackson, made use of the knowledge of cotton-See also:spinning gained by Lowell in England (whither he had gone for his See also:health in 181o) and devised a See also:power
1814. Lowell worked hard to secure a protective See also:tariff on cotton goods. The See also:city of Lowell, Massachusetts, was named in his See also:honour. He died in Boston on the loth of See also:August 1817.
End of Article: LOWELL, JOHN (1743-1802)
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