See also:ROBERT TREAT See also:PAINE (1731–1814)
, See also:American politician, a signer of the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 11th of See also:March 1731
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He graduated at Harvard in 1749, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1759
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In 1768 he was a delegate to the provincial See also:convention which was called to meet in Boston, and conducted the See also:prosecution of See also:Captain See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Preston and his men for their See also:share in the famous " Boston See also:Massacre" of the 5th of March 1770., He served in the Massachusetts See also:General See also:Court in 1773-1774, in the Provincial See also:Congress in 1774–1775, and in the See also:Continental Congress in 1774-1778, and was See also:speaker of the Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives in 1777, a member of the executive See also:council in 1779, a member of the See also:committee which drafted the constitution of 1780, See also:attorney-general of the See also:state from 1777 to 1790, and a See also:judge of the state supreme court from 1790 to 1804
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He died in Boston on the 11th of May 1814
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See See also:John See also:Sanderson, See also:Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (See also:Philadelphia, 1823), vol. ii
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His son, See also:ROBERT TREAT See also:PAINE (1773-1811), who was christened Thomas but in 1801 took the name of his See also:father and of an See also:elder See also:brother who died without issue in 1794,was a poet of some repute, but his verses have See also:long been forgotten
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His best known productions are See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams and See also:Liberty, a once popular See also:song written in 1798, The Invention of Letters (1795), and The Ruling See also:Passion, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem of 1797
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His See also:Works in See also:Verse and See also:Prose (Boston, 1812) contains a See also:biographical See also:sketch
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