Note 34 — Chapter I

It is of little consequence whether the merchants were instigated by one Barons, a dismissed revenue officer, or by Otis, supposed to have been influenced by the appointment of Hutchinson as Chief Justice to the exclusion of his father, who had cherished expectations of elevation to the bench on the first vacancy (Hutchinson, History, iii. 86; Tudor's Life of Otis, 55; and John Adams's Works, x. 281).