Edmund Trowbridge
Edmund Trowbridge (1709 - April 2, 1793) was an Associate Justice for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court during the Boston Massacre.
Early life and education
Edmund Trowbridge was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Thomas Trowbridge and Mary Goff. His great-grandfather, also named Thomas Trowbridge, migrated from England to Massachusetts during the Puritan migration to New England (1620-1640).
Trowbridge graduated from Harvard in 1728 and married Martha Remington, a daughter of Judge Jonathan Remington (1677-1745) in 1738.[1]
Career
In 1749, Trowbridge became attorney general for the colony of Massachusetts. However, in 1767 he was removed in favor of someone who was more outraged by British aggression.
He was not out of a job for long, as he was appointed Associate Justice for the colony's supreme judicial court within the year. In 1770, he was one of the presiding judges for the trial immediately after the Boston Massacre. Trowbridge retired to private life two years after this trial.[2]
He died in 1793 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A street in Cambridge is named after him. His nephew, judge Edmund Trowbridge Dana, was also named after him.[3] Both were buried at Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Ma.
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| Preceded by | Attorney General of Massachusetts 1749–1767 |
Succeeded by Jeremiah Gridley |
