Publications of

    THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS

    Volume lxxxiv

    OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY

    Donald R. Friary, President

    Robert J. Allison, Vice President

    Daniel R. Coquillette, Vice President

    Celeste Walker, Vice President

    Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary

    Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary

    Thomas R. Appleton, Treasurer

    COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATIONS

    Kenneth P. Minkema, Chair

    Robert Anderson

    Mary Sarah Bilder

    Christopher Jedrey

    Kenneth P. Minkema

    Celeste Walker

    EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS

    John W. Tyler

    THE CORRESPONDENCE OF

    Thomas Hutchinson

    Volume 1: 1740–1766

    Thomas Hutchinson, 1741. By Edward Truman. This is the only known portrait of Hutchinson drawn from life. It was painted in London during the year he spent there as unofficial agent of the province. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

    THE CORRESPONDENCE OF

    Thomas Hutchinson

    Volume 1: 1740–1766

    John W. Tyler, editor

    Elizabeth Dubrulle, associate editor

    boston The Colonial Society of Massachusetts 2014

    Distributed by the University of Virginia Press

    DEDICATION

    To the Memory of Malcolm Freiberg

    Who Knew Thomas Hutchinson Best of All

    Copyright © by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    ISBN 978-0-9852543-2-2

    Printed from the Income of the Sarah Louise Edes Fund,

    a grant from the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,

    and a matching grant from the General Society of Colonial Wars