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Jeremiah Gridley or Jeremy Gridley (1702–1767) was a lawyer, editor, colonial legislator, and attorney general in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century. He served as "Grand Master of the Masons in North America" around the 1760s,〔History of Saint John's Lodge, of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as shown in the records of the First Lodge, the Second Lodge, the Third Lodge, the Rising Sun Lodge, the Masters' Lodge, Saint John's Lodge, the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge. Boston, Privately printed, 1917; p.19-20. (Google books ).〕〔Boston Post Boy.; Date: 06-24-1765〕 and was associated with the founding of the Boston Bar Association.〔Candage. 1903〕 ==Biography== Born in 1702 in Boston to Richard Gridley (born 1684) and Rebecca Gridley, Jeremiah attended Harvard College (class of 1725); classmates included Mather Byles.〔(Quinquennial catalogue of the officers and graduates of Harvard University ), 1636–1915. 1915〕 Gridley married Abigail Lewis around 1730. In the 1730s he edited ''The Weekly Rehearsal,'' a literary magazine.〔The Rehearsal was published by John Draper (1731) and Thomas Fleet (c. 1733). http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/18th/204.html〕〔Isaiah Thomas, Benjamin Franklin Thomas. (The history of printing in America ): with a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers, Volume 1. J. Munsell, printer, 1874〕〔Albert Matthews. (Check-list of Boston newspapers, 1704-1780 ). Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1907.〕〔Charles E. Clark. Boston and the Nurturing of Newspapers: Dimensions of the Cradle, 1690–1741. New England Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 243-271〕 He practiced law in Boston. As a lawyer he trained John Adams, William Cushing, James Otis, Benjamin Pratt, and Oxenbridge Thacher.〔Charles Warren. A History of the American Bar. Little, Brown, and Co., 1911; p.81〕 In 1761 "he defended the 'writs of assistance,' for which the custom house officers had applied to the superior court, and which authorized them to enter houses under suspicion of obtaining smuggled goods, at their own discretion. Gridley had for an antagonist in this case the celebrated patriot, James Otis."〔(National cyclopedia of American biography ). 1896〕 "He was moderator of the town of Brookline 1759, 1760, and 1761, ... representative to the General Court for 1755, 1756, and 1757, and Attorney General in 1767."〔History of Saint John's Lodge, of Boston. 1917; p.19〕〔Boston Gazette, or Weekly Journal; Date: 06-02-1755〕〔Boston Weekly News-Letter; Date: 06-10-1756〕 He also belonged to the Boston Marine Society.〔Nathaniel Spooner. Gleanings from the records of the Boston Marine Society: through its first century, 1742 to 1842. The Society, 1879〕 Gridley died in 1767, and was buried in the Granary Burying Ground. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeremiah Gridley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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