John Malcom
(1723-1788)
BIRTH
May 20, 1723
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
November 23, 1788
PLACE
England
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John Malcom, often spelled Malcolm, was a Loyalist sea captain and customs officer twice tarred and feathered in Massachusetts. After a seizure at Falmouth provoked the first assault, a January 1774 street quarrel with shoemaker George Hewes led to a brutal Boston attack. Governor Hutchinson reported the violence to London. Malcom later sought royal compensation and refuge in England. His case reveals coercion and personal conflict amid resistance to imperial rule.
EARLY LIFE
John Malcom was born on May 20, 1723 in Boston, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Malcom with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Malcom died on Nov 23, 1788 in England. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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John Malcom, often spelled Malcolm, was a Loyalist sea captain and customs officer twice tarred and feathered in Massachusetts. After a seizure at Falmouth provoked the first assault, a January 1774 street quarrel with shoemaker George Hewes led to a brutal Boston attack. Governor Hutchinson reported the violence to London. He was later given a commission as an ensign in 1780, for "an Independent Company of Invalids" at Plymouth, England. John Malcom died on Nov 23, 1788 in England. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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