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ID number:199530
 
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Published: 28.10.2002.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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He attendedHarvard University in 1751. He later graduated Harvard in 1755, he ended up taking a position as a teacher in Worcester. where he later left his teaching position to take on a lawyer position in Braintree, where he wrote wills, deeds, and he took an interest in town affairs. His practice often took him to Boston where he met up with his distance cousin Samuel Adams and James Otis Jr. They joined the "Sodalitas" the lawyers mixed up and discussed the Stamp Act of 1765. He was elected as a Selectman but he gave that post up in 1768 to move to Boston for good.
In 1770 he got his most dramatic case, where he and Josiah Quincy defended the British Soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre. They won this case. He decided to semiretire in 1771, after 16 months he returned to Boston.

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