Hutchinson Mansion Site
He argued against the Stamp Act in private, and lost everything for it in public.
Listen to this place’s story in Peplos.
How the story begins
"Some Apology is necessary for my Dress," the chief justice of Massachusetts told his court on the morning of the twenty-seventh of August, 1765. "Indeed I had no other." Thomas Hutchinson had come only because the court had no quorum without him. "Destitute of every Thing," he said. "No other Shirt, no other Garment, but what I have on." Part of even that was borrowed. The evening before, he had been at supper in his mansion on this street, when someone ran in to say the mob was coming.
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
Garden Court Street, North End, a step from North Square. The mansion is gone. The plaque recorded here is on the wall of a private house, so stay on the street.
Sources
- Colonial Society of Massachusetts, The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson: The Second Stamp Act Riots, 26 August 1765
- American Battlefield Trust, Thomas Hutchinson
- Historical Marker Database, Mansion of Gov. Hutchinson
- OpenPlaques, Thomas Hutchinson
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