Edmund Trowbridge

In 1742, he was recorded as owning an enslaved man named York. Seven years later in 1749, Trowbridge became attorney general for the Province of Massachusetts Bay.^[2] However, in 1767 Trowbridge was removed in favor of someone who was more opposed to British colonial policies. In that same year, he was recorded as owning two slaves: an enslaved woman named Violet and her mother.^[3]

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 trials of the soldiers and civilians involved in the Boston Massacre. Trowbridge retired to private life two years after this trial.

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.^[4] Both were buried at Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Ma.

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