Thomas Brattle

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Thomas Brattle (born February 11, 1742 in Cambridge , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † February 7, 1801 ) was an American merchant from Boston , Massachusetts.

Brattle was the son of William Brattle (1706–1776), a wealthy merchant and politician from Boston, and the maternal grandson of Gurdon Saltonstall (1666–1724), governor of the Colony of Connecticut . Thomas Brattle earned 1760 and 1763 degrees from Harvard University and Yale University and Nassau Hall ( Princeton University ) a Masters . He then worked as a businessman in Boston.

When business became more difficult due to the American Revolutionary War , Brattle traveled to England in 1775. Further trips took him to the Netherlands and France . Back in England he tried to improve the situation for Americans captured there. As a suspected loyalist , he fell under the Massachusetts Banishment Act in 1778 , a Bill of Attainder against Americans who were on the side of the British Empire .

In 1779 Brattle traveled back to America and initially settled in Rhode Island , where he provided helpful services for the French troops there. The ban against him was lifted in 1784 and Thomas Brattle was able to take over his properties in Massachusetts again. He subsequently distinguished himself as a consultant, benefactor and philanthropist.

In 1796 Brattle was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society .

literature

  • Sketch of the Life and Character of Thomas Brattle, Esquire, Member of the Historical Society. In: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society , 1802 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Brattle, Thomas. In: Lorenzo Sabine : The American Loyalists: Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the British Crown in the War of the Revolution; Alphabetically Arranged; With a Preliminary Historical Essay. Boston, Little & Brown, 1847.
  • Brattle, Thomas. In: Franklin Benjamin Hough: American Biographical Notes: being Short Notices of Deceased Persons, Chiefly Those not Included in Allen's or in Drake's Biographical Dictionaries. Albany, Munsell, 1875.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brattle, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American businessman
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1801