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Birthplace of Foster Hutchinson, Foster Hutchinson House, Boston, Massachusetts,
c. 1776 , demolished 1833
[1] The house is described as "one of the great lost pieces of architecture in Boston history"
[2]
Foster Hutchinson Sr., d. 1799,
Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Foster Hutchinson (1724–1799) was an associate justice of
Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature , the highest court of the
Province of Massachusetts Bay . One of five judges in Massachusetts at the time of the
American Revolution , he remained loyal to Britain.
[3] He was a younger brother of
Loyalist Massachusetts Governor
Thomas Hutchinson .
[4] He was a graduate of
Harvard University (1743).
[5] He escaped Boston as a
loyalist in 1776 and settled in
Halifax, Nova Scotia . He took the
probate records of
Suffolk Co. where he was Judge of Probate and never released them until 1784, when
Benjamin Kent was able to procure their surrender.
[6] He re-printed examples of rebel propaganda in the local newspaper for which he later was forced to apologize.
[7] He was the father of
Foster Hutchinson , also a jurist in Nova Scotia. He was buried in Halifax's
Old Burying Ground .
See also
References
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p. 64
^
"The Foster-Hutchinson House" .
^
"The American loyalists : Or, Biographical sketches of adherents to the British crown in the war of the revolution, alphabetically arranged, with a preliminary historical essay" . 1847.
^ In fact, Thomas Hutchinson had an older brother also named Foster Hutchinson (1704-1721) who died three years before his younger brother Foster Hutchison was born.
^
"The American loyalists : Or, Biographical sketches of adherents to the British crown in the war of the revolution, alphabetically arranged, with a preliminary historical essay" . 1847.
^ Adams, John (1965).
"Legal Papers of John Adams" .
^
Murdoch, Beamish (1866).
A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie . Vol. II. Halifax: J. Barnes. p.
575 .