[Footnote 16: In Maine, at this time and long afterwards a part of
Massachusetts. Lawyers were in the habit of following the circuit in
those days.]
[Footnote 17: All the persons named in this letter reached eminence,
both professional and political, in Massachusetts.
Of John and James Sullivan much information has been furnished in the
memoir of the latter by Mr. T. C. Amory.
David Sewall, a classmate of John Adams at Harvard College, was made a
Judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and afterwards transferred
to the District Court of the United States for Maine. He died in 1825 at
a very advanced age.
Theophilus Bradbury graduated at Harvard College in the year 1757. He
served as a representative in the Congress of the United States in the
fifth Congress, and afterwards as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court
of Massachusetts. He died in 1803.]
[Footnote 18: Mr. Lowell signed the address to Governor Hutchinson, in
common with most of the members of the bar. But he had studied his
profession in the office of Oxenbridge Thacher, and did not forget his
master's principles. In the Revolutionary struggle he took his side with
his countrymen, and labored faithfully for the cause. He was a delegate
to the Congress of the Confederation, during the war, was most efficient
in the convention which matured the Constitution of Massachusetts, and
finally served with great credit as Judge of Appeals in admiralty causes
before, and as the first judge of the District Court of the United
States for Massachusetts, after the adoption of the Federal
Constitution.]