And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

He also attempted a merchant career with journeys to the Carolinas the Azores and to Spain as well as a whaling voyage to Greenland. March 7 1772; d. 20 1777; d.

He served as the state's first attorney general and served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the state's highest court.