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'''Jeremiah Gridley''' or '''Jeremy Gridley''' (1702-1767) was a lawyer, editor, [[Massachusetts General Court|state legislator]], and [[Massachusetts Attorney General|attorney general]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], in the 18th century. He served as "Grand Master of the [[Freemasonry|Masons]] in North America" around the 1760s,<ref>History of Saint John's Lodge, of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as shown in the records of the First Lodge, the Second Lodge, the Third Lodge, the Rising Sun Lodge, the Masters' Lodge, Saint John's Lodge, the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge. Boston, Privately printed, 1917; p.19-20. [http://books.google.com/books?id=y2L4G2ip1LYC Google books].</ref><ref>Boston Post Boy.; Date: 06-24-1765</ref> and was associated with the founding of the [[Boston Bar Association]].<ref>Candage. 1903</ref>▼
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▲'''Jeremiah Gridley''' (or '''Jeremy Gridley''';
==Biography==
Born in 1702 in Boston<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine|date=1907|volume=39|publisher=Granite Monthly Co.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oYIbAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-03-08}}</ref> to Richard Gridley (
[[Image:JeremyGridley house Brookline Massachusetts.png|thumb|left|Gridley house (built 1740) in Brookline, Massachusetts, as it appeared in the 19th
He practiced law in Boston. As a lawyer he trained [[John Adams]], [[William Cushing]], [[James Otis
"He was moderator of the town of [[Brookline, Massachusetts|Brookline]] 1759, 1760, and 1761, ... representative to the General Court for 1755, 1756, and 1757, and Attorney General in 1767."<ref>History of Saint John's Lodge, of Boston. 1917; p.19</ref><ref>Boston Gazette, or Weekly Journal; Date: 06-02-1755</ref><ref>Boston Weekly News-Letter; Date: 06-10-1756</ref> He also belonged to the [[Boston Marine Society]].<ref>Nathaniel Spooner. Gleanings from the records of the Boston Marine Society: through its first century, 1742 to 1842. The Society, 1879</ref>
Gridley died in 1767, and was buried in the [[Granary Burying Ground]].<ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=Bibliographical notes in Boston newspapers, 1704-1780|date=1907|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XlavAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=2015-03-08 |last1=Matthews |first1=Albert }}</ref>
==References==
[[Image:1731 WeeklyRehearsal Boston Sept27.png|thumb|right|''Weekly Rehearsal,'' edited by Gridley,
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==Further reading==
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===Works by Gridley===
* ''The Weekly Rehearsal''.
* ''[[American Magazine and Historical Chronicle]].'' 1743–1746. (May have been edited by Gridley).
===Works about Gridley===
* [
* R.G.F. Candage. Jeremy Gridley. [
* Lyon N. Richardson. A History of Early American Magazines,
* John K. Reeves. Jeremy Gridley, Editor. New England Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1944), pp.
* Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. A Majestick Shape: 1745. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Oct., 1949), pp.
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Jeremiah Gridley | |
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Massachusetts Attorney General | |
Member of the General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay | |
In office 1755–1757 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay | March 10, 1702
Died | September 10, 1767 Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 65)
Resting place | Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Alma mater | Harvard College (class of 1725) |
Jeremiah Gridley (or Jeremy Gridley; 1702–1767) was a lawyer, editor, colonial legislator, and attorney general in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in the 18th century. He served as "Grand Master of the Masons in North America" around the 1760s,[1][2] and was associated with the founding of the Boston Bar Association.[3]
Biography[edit]
Born in 1702 in Boston[4] to Richard Gridley (born 1684) and Rebecca Gridley, Jeremiah attended Harvard College (class of 1725); classmates included Mather Byles.[5] Gridley married Abigail Lewis around 1730. In the 1730s he edited The Weekly Rehearsal, a literary magazine.[6][7][8][9]
He practiced law in Boston. As a lawyer he trained John Adams, William Cushing, James Otis, Benjamin Pratt, and Oxenbridge Thacher.[10] In 1761 "he defended the 'writs of assistance,' for which the custom house officers had applied to the superior court, and which authorized them to enter houses under suspicion of obtaining smuggled goods, at their own discretion. Gridley had for an antagonist in this case the celebrated patriot, James Otis."[11]
"He was moderator of the town of Brookline 1759, 1760, and 1761, ... representative to the General Court for 1755, 1756, and 1757, and Attorney General in 1767."[12][13][14] He also belonged to the Boston Marine Society.[15]
Gridley died in 1767, and was buried in the Granary Burying Ground.[16]
References[edit]
- ^ History of Saint John's Lodge, of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as shown in the records of the First Lodge, the Second Lodge, the Third Lodge, the Rising Sun Lodge, the Masters' Lodge, Saint John's Lodge, the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge. Boston, Privately printed, 1917; p.19-20. Google books.
- ^ Boston Post Boy.; Date: 06-24-1765
- ^ Candage. 1903
- ^ The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine. Vol. 39. Granite Monthly Co. 1907. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
- ^ Quinquennial catalogue of the officers and graduates of Harvard University, 1636–1915. 1915
- ^ The Rehearsal was published by John Draper (1731) and Thomas Fleet (c. 1733). https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/18th/204.html
- ^ Isaiah Thomas, Benjamin Franklin Thomas. The history of printing in America: with a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers, Volume 1. J. Munsell, printer, 1874
- ^ Albert Matthews. Check-list of Boston newspapers, 1704-1780. Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1907.
- ^ Charles E. Clark. Boston and the Nurturing of Newspapers: Dimensions of the Cradle, 1690–1741. New England Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 243-271
- ^ Charles Warren. A History of the American Bar. Little, Brown, and Co., 1911; p.81
- ^ National cyclopedia of American biography. 1896
- ^ History of Saint John's Lodge, of Boston. 1917; p.19
- ^ Boston Gazette, or Weekly Journal; Date: 06-02-1755
- ^ Boston Weekly News-Letter; Date: 06-10-1756
- ^ Nathaniel Spooner. Gleanings from the records of the Boston Marine Society: through its first century, 1742 to 1842. The Society, 1879
- ^ Matthews, Albert (1907). Bibliographical notes in Boston newspapers, 1704-1780. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
Further reading[edit]
Works by Gridley[edit]
- The Weekly Rehearsal. 1731–1735. (Edited/published by Gridley).
- American Magazine and Historical Chronicle. 1743–1746. (May have been edited by Gridley).
Works about Gridley[edit]
- Encyclopædia Americana: A popular dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, history, politics and biography, a new edition. 1845.
- R.G.F. Candage. Jeremy Gridley. Publications of the Brookline Historical Society. 1903.
- Lyon N. Richardson. A History of Early American Magazines, 1741–1789 (New York, 1931. Google books.
- John K. Reeves. Jeremy Gridley, Editor. New England Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1944), pp. 265–281.
- Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. A Majestick Shape: 1745. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Oct., 1949), pp. 74–80.
- 1702 births
- 1767 deaths
- Harvard College alumni
- Lawyers from Boston
- Politicians from Brookline, Massachusetts
- 18th century in Boston
- Massachusetts Attorneys General
- Members of the colonial Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Burials at Granary Burying Ground
- People from colonial Boston
- 18th-century Massachusetts politicians