Thomas Hutchinson (1711-1780), American governor of colonial Massachusetts and a staunch defender of English colonial policy, was also a jurist and historian. Thomas Hutchinson was born in Boston on Sept. 9, 1711. He entered Harvard at the age of 12,...

Although best known as the last civilian royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson also deserves to be remembered as the author of a history of that colony. Hutchinson's devotion to objectivity and his reliance on original sources make his...

Thomas Hutchinson, one of the most maligned men in early American history, was the last civilian royal governor of the province of Massachusetts. In the history of American literature, he is known primarily as the author of the valuable, three-volume...

Letters of Thomas Hutchinson Published in 1768–69; excerpted from The Life of Thomas Hutchinson, Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay "I never think of the measures necessary for the peace and good order of the colonies...

Thomas Hutchinson (September 9 1711 – June 3 1780) was the American colonial governor of Massachusetts from 1771 to 1774 and a prominent Loyalist in the years before the American Revolutionary War. For many years he had worked on a history of the...