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James Putnam Esq. (1726-1789)
Worcester
Biography: JAMES PUTNAM (1726-1789). Harvard 1746. Studied law with Edmund Trowbridge, q.v. Admitted attorney, SCJ, Sept. 1749; barrister, Aug. 1762.
Practiced in Worcester. JA studied law in his office, 1756-1758. Appointed Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum, I 762. Addresser of Hutchinson, 1774, and Gage, 1775. Took refuge in Boston, 1774, and appointed Attorney General, 1775. Sailed for Halifax, 1776, then to New York, where he held a military post. Proscribed, 1778. Lived in England, 1779-1784. Then moved to New Brunswick as Judge of the Supreme Court and member of the Council. I 2 Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates 57-66.
Adams, John, L. Kinvin Wroth, and Hiller B. Zobel. Legal Papers of John Adams. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965.
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Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Attorney for original Defendant on Appeal" JAMES PUTNAM (1726-1789). Harvard 1746. Studied law with Edmund Trowbridge, q.v. Admitted attorney, SCJ, Sept. 1749; barrister, Aug. 1762. Practiced in Worcester. JA studied law in his office, 1756-1758. Appointed Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum, I 762. Addresser of Hutchinson, 1774, and Gage, 1775. Took refuge in Boston, 1774, and appointed Attorney General, 1775. Sailed for Halifax, 1776, then to New York, where he held a military post. Proscribed, 1778. Lived in England, 1779-1784. Then moved to New Brunswick as Judge of the Supreme Court and member of the Council. I 2 Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates 57-66."
Note Citation: Adams, John, L. Kinvin Wroth, and Hiller B. Zobel. Legal Papers of John Adams. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. Volume 1.