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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783
William Browne Esq (1737-1802)
Salem
Biography: WILLIAM BROWNE (1737-1802). Harvard 1755. Studied law with Edmund Trowbridge, q.v., but never practiced. Appointed Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum, 1761. Briefly Collector of the Port of Salem, 1764, but dismissed, apparently in scandal over counterfeit clearances. Represented Salem in the House, 1762-1768. One of the seventeen "Rescinders" who voted to withdraw resolutions protesting the Townshend Acts, 1768. Judge, Essex Inferior Court, 1770-1774. Addresser of Gage, 1774. Appointed Judge of the Superior Court and a Mandamus Councilor, 1774. Took refuge in Boston. In 1776 sailed for England. Proscribed, 1778. Governor of Bermuda, 178 1-178 8. 13 Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates 551-560.
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