John Malcom
BIRTH
May 20, 1723
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
November 23, 1788
England
FAMILY
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Malcom, John
(1723-1788)
John Malcolm was a Boston-born customs official and staunch Loyalist whose aggressive enforcement of royal authority made him deeply unpopular. In January 1774, a Boston crowd tarred and feathered him in one of the best-publicized acts of pre-Revolutionary resistance.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Boston Tea Party Museum | 306 Congress St, Boston, MA 02210 | MUSEUM | ||
Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK |
DIED:
England
Nov 23, 1788
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.