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[52] Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson, sons of Governor Hutchinson, were merchants and
partners in business, and consignees of one-third of the tea shipped to Boston. I have seen
no evidence of a pecuniary interest in this shipment on the part of the Governor, as is
asserted by the historian Bancroft. Their names were given to the East India Company by
a London correspondent, who solicits the consignment for them, without mentioning their
connection with the Governor. Thomas, jr., born in Boston, in 1740, was a mandamus
Councillor and Judge of Probate, and was proscribed and banished. When the condition
of the country became unpleasantly hostile, he left the mansion house at Milton, and took
shelter in Boston, but left all the furniture, silver plate, &c., expecting to be able to pass
and repass at pleasure. When Boston was evacuated, he and his family, and Peter Oliver
and family, embarked for London, in the "Lord Hyde" packet. He settled at Heavitree,
near Exeter, in Devonshire, and died there in 1811. His wife was Sarah Oliver.
Elisha, his brother, born in 1745, graduated at Harvard University, in 1762; was
proscribed and banished, and died at Blurton Parsonage, Trentham, Staffordshire,
England, in November, 1824. His wife, Mary, daughter of Col. George Watson, of
Plymouth, Mass., died at Birmingham, England, in 1803. "Neither of my sons," wrote the
Governor, in March, 1774, "have dared to appear in Boston since the latter part of
November, to the total neglect and ruin of their business."
[53] Stephen Greenleaf, sheriff of Suffolk County, was arrested by the Council of
Massachusetts as a loyalist, in April, 1776. He died in Boston, in 1795; aged ninety-one.
[54] John Singleton Copley, a famous painter, son-in-law of Richard Clarke, and father of
Lord Lyndhurst, was born in Boston, July 3, 1737, and died in London, September 9,
1813. He was a self-taught artist, and after painting many portraits in Boston, settled in
London in 1775, and acquired a high reputation.
[55] John Pownall, many years Clerk of the Reports, Secretary of the Board of Trade
(1754-68,) Deputy Secretary of State (1768-76,) and afterwards a Commissioner of the
Board of Customs, a Magistrate and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, died in London, July
17, 1795; aged seventy. His brother, Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts in 1757-60,
afterwards, while a member of Parliament, opposed the American policy of the
Government.
[56] William Bull, M.D., Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina, from 1764 to 1776,
was the son of William, who held the same office from 1738 to 1743, and who was the
son of Stephen, one of the early settlers of South Carolina, and Surveyor-General of the
Province. William studied medicine at the University of Leyden, and was the pupil of the
celebrated Boerhaave. He settled in practice in his native Province; became a member of
the Council in 1751, and in 1763 was Speaker of the Assembly. Faithful to the Crown, he
accompanied the British troops to England, on their departure in 1782, and died in
London, July 4, 1791; aged eighty-one.
[57] John Morris, Comptroller of Customs at Charleston, S.C., was permitted, in
November, 1775, on account of his impaired health, "to pass and repass to his Island,"