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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783
Honorable Nathaniel Ropes Esq. (1726-1774)
Salem
Biography: NATHANIEL ROPES (1726-1774). Harvard 1745. Had no formal legal training.
Represented Salem in the House, 1760-1761. Councilor, 1762-1769, supporting policies of Hutchinson. Appointed Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum, 1761. Judge, Essex Inferior Court, 1761-1772. Essex Co. Judge of Probate, 1766-1772. Justice, Superior Court, [Januiary 15] 1772-1774. His death was hastened by the agitation over the royal salary grant, which he renounced on his deathbed. 11 Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates 572-574.
Adams, John, L. Kinvin Wroth, and Hiller B. Zobel. Legal Papers of John Adams. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965.
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