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Hutchinson, Thomas

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Hutchinson, Thomas (1711-1780)

American colonial governor. As chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, he upheld the legality of the Stamp Act in 1765. He was governor of Massachusetts during the eventful period preceding the American Revolution (1771-74) and then he moved to England where he wrote a valuable history of the Massachusetts Bay colony.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the great-great grandson of the American religious leader Anne Hutchinson.
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