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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783

John Lowell Esq. (1743-1802)

Newburyport

Biography: JOHN LOWELL ( 1743-1802). Harvard 1760. Studied law with Oxenbridge Thacher, q. v. Admitted attorney, SCJ, May 1 7 6 5; barrister, June 1767. Practiced in Newburyport until 1777, thereafter in Boston. Appointed Justice of the Peace, 1769. Addresser of Hutchinson, 1774, recanting several months later. Represented Newburyport in the House, 1776; Boston, 1778, 1780. Delegate to Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1779-1780. Served in Continental Congress, 1782-1783. Appointed to federal Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture, 1782. Judge, United States District Court, Massachusetts, 1789. Appointed Chief Judge of the First Circuit in Feb. 1801 by JA - one of the "midnight judges." DAB; 1 Adams Family Correspondence 405-406. His papers are in MHi.
Adams, John, L. Kinvin Wroth, and Hiller B. Zobel. Legal Papers of John Adams. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965.

Comments:

Jude vs. Daniel Hale (1769) Attorney for Plaintiff
Lewis vs. Dodge (1769) Attorney for Plaintiff
Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Attorney for original Plaintiff on Appeal
Casar Hendrick vs. Richard Greenleaf (1773) Attorney for Plaintiff

Sources

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• ECCP Writ
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Dodge's response to Writ
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• ECCP Court Judgment for Dodge, page 1
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• ECCP Court Judgment for Dodge, page 2
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Notice of Lewis's intent to file appeal of loss to Dodge in ECCP case.
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Back of Writ to Linebrook residents for SCJ
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Front of Writ to Linebrook residents for SCJ
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• SCJ ruling in favor of Edward Lewis.
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Guardianship papers assigning John Lowell as guardian to Edward Lewis - Front
  Citation: Essex County Probate Records - AmericanAncestors.org

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• Guardianship papers assigning John Lowell as guardian to Edward Lewis - Page 2
  Citation: Essex County Probate Records - AmericanAncestors.org

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• Guardianship papers assigning John Lowell as guardian to Edward Lewis - Page 3
  Citation: Essex County Probate Records - AmericanAncestors.org

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• Guardianship papers assigning John Lowell as guardian to Edward Lewis - Page 4
  Citation: Essex County Probate Records - AmericanAncestors.org

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• June 1772 Finding of SJC1772Taylor/SCJ_finding.jpg

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• Dated September 28, 1773. Record of original writ and disposition of Casar Hendrick vs. Greenleaf. Hendrick claimed to be wrongfully enslaved as a "molatto". ECCP Jury found for Plaintiff for eighteen pounds money damages and costs.
  Citation: Casear vs Greenleaf Esq, Essex County Court of Common Pleas, September 1773, 29.