Edmund Trowbridge (1709 – April 2, 1793) was an American judge and lawyer. He is best known for being an associate justice for theMassachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the highest court in theProvince of Massachusetts Bay, during theBoston Massacre.
Edmund Trowbridge was born inCambridge, Massachusetts to Thomas Trowbridge and Mary Goff. His great-grandfather, also named Thomas Trowbridge, migrated from England to Massachusetts during thePuritan migration to New England.
Trowbridge graduated fromHarvard College in 1728 and married Martha Remington, a daughter of JudgeJonathan Remington (1677-1745) in 1738.[1]
In 1742, he was recorded as owning anenslaved 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 theBoston 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, judgeEdmund Trowbridge Dana, was also named after him.[4] Both were buried at Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Ma.
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