#2 Seems that the Souter House is going the way of the Thomas Hutchinson house.
Acting Royal Governor of Massachusetts (June through August 1760)
Acting Royal Governor of Massachusetts (August 1769-November 1770)
Royal Governor of Massachusetts (1770-1774)
He resisted Boston's gradual drift away from England and perceived the revolution was stoked by hotheads, seizing on miniscule issues, which they used to inflame sentiments. Hutchinson was unflinchingly rational and held an enmity for the revolutionary radicals. They returned this feeling, when in 1765, as a mob they attacked and looted his personal residence. |