Item #42443 THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, FROM 1749 TO 1774, COMPRISING A DETAILED NARRATIVE OF THE ORIGIN AND EARLY STAGES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, ESQ., L. L. D. FORMERLY GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE. EDITED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MS., BY HIS GRANDSON, THE REV. JOHN HUTCHINSON, M.A. Thomas Hutchinson.
THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, FROM 1749 TO 1774, COMPRISING A DETAILED NARRATIVE OF THE ORIGIN AND EARLY STAGES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, ESQ., L. L. D. FORMERLY GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE. EDITED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MS., BY HIS GRANDSON, THE REV. JOHN HUTCHINSON, M.A.

THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, FROM 1749 TO 1774, COMPRISING A DETAILED NARRATIVE OF THE ORIGIN AND EARLY STAGES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, ESQ., L. L. D. FORMERLY GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE. EDITED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MS., BY HIS GRANDSON, THE REV. JOHN HUTCHINSON, M.A.

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1828. xx, 551, [1 blank], 16 publ. ads dated April 1828. Bound in original cloth [some rubbing and light chipping, rebacked in cloth with new spine title label. Front inner hinge cracked but binding holding well. Prior owner's bookplate, "Lyndhurst." Very Good.

This is the posthumous volume of Hutchinson's masterful work. "It is a work of permanent value and is indispensable in any American Collection" [Sabin].
"Besides being a colonial historian, Hutchinson was governor of Massachusetts from 1771 to 1773 and a staunch Loyalist. He left Boston for London in late 1773, after his actions were one of the precipitating causes of the Boston Tea Party, and remained in exile in England until his death in 1780" [Reese].
Sabin 34082. Item #42443

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