Portrait of Jeremiah Gridley by John Smibert, 1731 (Harvard University)
Massachusetts Attorney General
Member of the General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
In office 1755–1757
Personal details
Born
(1702-03-10)March 10, 1702 Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Died
September 10, 1767(1767-09-10) (aged 65) Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater
Harvard College (class of 1725)
Jeremiah Gridley (or Jeremy Gridley; 1702–1767) was a lawyer, editor, colonial legislator, and attorney general in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in the 18th century. He served as "Grand Master of the Masons in North America" around the 1760s,[1][2] and was associated with the founding of the Boston Bar Association.[3]
^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.
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