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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783

William Pynchon Esq. (1723-1789)

Salem

Biography: WILLIAM PYNCHON (1723-1789). Harvard 1743. Studied law with Mitchell Sewall, Essex Co. Clerk of Courts and Register of Deeds. Admitted attorney, SCJ, June 1757; barrister, Aug. 1762. Practiced in Essex Co. Had many students, including William Wetmore, q.v., later his son-in-law. Appointed Justice of the Peace, 1761. Addresser of Hutchinson, 1774, but recanted. Addresser of Gage, 1774. Although remaining firmly loyalist in sympathy, he braved out the Revolution in Salem, continuing to practice law in partnership with Wetmore, and finally being appointed a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum in 1786.
Adams, John, L. Kinvin Wroth, and Hiller B. Zobel. Legal Papers of John Adams. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965.

Comments: Agreed to pay 10 pounds if Richard Greenleaf did not appeal Casar vs Greenleaf (1773) or make court ordered payment.

Lewis vs. Dodge (1769) Attorney for original Defendant on Appeal
Bristol vs. John Osgood (1773) Attorney
Casar Hendrick vs. Richard Greenleaf (1773) Supported Bond for SCJ Appeal
Sampson vs. Caleb Dodge and Josiah Batchelder (1775) Attorney for Defendant
Timon vs. Peter Osgood (1777) Attorney for Defendant
Kimball vs. Kimball (1779) Attorney for Defendant

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