Hutchinson letters affair
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The Hutchinson letters affair was an incident that increased tensions between the colonists of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and the British government prior to the American Revolution.
Political cartoon from 1774 by Paul Revere, depicting Death attacking Governor Thomas Hutchinson.
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Thomas Hutchinson, the author of some of the inflammatory letters
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by David Martin, 1767
Andrew Oliver, portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1758
Thomas Cushing
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Thomas Cushing III was an American lawyer, merchant, and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. Active in Boston politics, he represented the city in the provincial assembly from 1761 to its dissolutio
Portrait, c. 1774
John Hancock, portrait by John Singleton Copley