American jurist and naturalist, born in Roxbury, MA, on the 3rd of September 1675. He was the son of the preceding, and received his education at Harvard College, and the Temple in London. When he was but twenty-seven he was appointed attorney-general of the province of Massachusetts. He was appointed chief justice in 1745. He was a man of broad scholarship and took an active interest in natural science, publishing several papers on various topics. He was an anti-Catholic, and a strong supporter of the New England churches and colleges. He died in Roxbury on the 25th of January 1751.
