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Thomas Hutchinson, the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, had one of the finest homes in Boston – until August 26, 1765 when a rebel mob destroyed it.
Thomas Hutchinson, Tory governor of Massachusetts, watched as an angry mob almost tore down his beloved three-story house on Garden Court Street on Aug. 26, 1765. Hutchinson longed for it during his exile in England until his death in 1780.
On August 16, a crowd had leveled the newly constructed counting house of Andrew Oliver, the province secretary and stamp distributor, before proceeding to hurl brickbats through the windows of his nearby house. Thomas Hutchinson, Oliver’s brother-in-law and the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, had long stood high in the people’s ...
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Thomas Hutchinson was the last royal governor of Massachusetts, and a frequent target for Colonial resentment of British authority. The mansion was ransacked on the night of August 26, 1765 in a protest against the Stamp Act.
Thomas Hutchinson (9 September 1711 – 3 June 1780) was an American merchant, politician, historian, and colonial administrator who repeatedly served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
Hutchinson was lieutenant-governer of the Massachusetts colony from 1758 to 1771 and then governor until 1774. Hutchinson lived in the three-story Georgian town house starting in 1765. At the end of his office, he returned to England and died there in 1780.
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On the 26th, a mob attacked the home of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson for his public support of the Stamp Act. Hutchinson was personally against the tax, but he felt it was his job to enforce it as a public official.
