Thomas Hutchinson
BIRTH
Sep 9, 1711
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
June 3, 1780
Middlesex, England
FAMILY
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Hutchinson, Thomas
(1711-1780)
Thomas Hutchinson was a Massachusetts historian, judge, lieutenant governor, and the colony's last civilian royal governor. His defense of parliamentary authority and handling of the Boston Massacre, tea crisis, and other disputes made him a central Loyalist opponent of the Patriot movement.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Old State House | 206 Washington St, Boston, MA 02109 | MUSEUM | ||
Old South Meeting House | 310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108 | MUSEUM | ||
Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK | ||
Province House Marker | 329 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108 | MARKER |
DIED:
Middlesex, England
Jun 3, 1780
Thomas Hutchinson was born on Sep 9, 1711 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 Thomas Hutchinson with work or public activity as a governor, lawyer, statesman. 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. Thomas Hutchinson died on Jun 3, 1780 in Middlesex, England. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.