Major-General William Brattle (April 18, 1706 – October 25, 1776) was an American politician, lawyer, cleric, physician and military officer who served as the Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1736 to 1738. Brattle is best known for his actions during the American Revolution, in which he initially aligned himself with the Patriot cause before transferring his allegiances towards the Loyalist camp, which led to the eventual downfall of his fortunes.
The son of a prominent Massachusetts cleric, Brattle graduated from Harvard College in 1722 and eventually inherited the estates of both his father and uncle, making him one of the richest men in the colony. Brattle dabbled in medicine and law before spending the majority of his career as both a politician and a military officer in the colonial militia, serving through two French and Indian Wars and rising to the rank of brigadier-general by 1760.
When tensions increased between Great Britain and its American colonies, Brattle initially supported the Patriot side before joining the Loyalist cause after a disagreement over judges' salaries. In 1774, Brattle wrote a letter to Governor Thomas Gage about the state of a gunpowder magazine outside Boston; rising tensions led Gage to order the gunpowder there to be relocated, infuriating local residents who forced Brattle to seek British protection.
Brattle remained in British-controlled Boston during the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, including when it was placed under siege by the Continental Army in 1776. He left alongside the British military when they evacuated the city in March 1776, settling in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Brattle died seven months later at the age of 70. Brattle Street in Cambridge and the town of Brattleboro, Vermont, are both named in his honor.
Major-General WilliamBrattle (April 18, 1706 – October 25, 1776) was an American politician, lawyer, cleric, physician and military officer who served...
The WilliamBrattle House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of the seven Colonial mansions described by historian Samuel Atkins...
Somerville, was controlled by WilliamBrattle, the leader of the provincial militia and an appointee of the governor. Brattle, who had not obviously sided...
Colonial mansions along Brattle Street. Its historic buildings from the 18th century include the WilliamBrattle House (42 Brattle Street) and the Longfellow...
1871 – when that organization moved into the adjacent WilliamBrattle House that year. Brattle Hall was built to house the organization's library, and...
Square is a triangular plaza at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street and John F. Kennedy Street near the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts...
siblings, including WilliamBrattle and Catherine Winthrop. Brattle's date of birth is often confused with the first-born son of the Brattle family (also named...
42 Brattle Street since taking over the building from the Cambridge Social Union in 1938. The CCAE is housed in two historic buildings, the William Brattle...
entrepreneur and slave trader thought to be Australia's first "blackbirder". WilliamBrattle (1706–1776), American politician and military officer, he was identified...
In the 1690s, John Leverett the Younger, WilliamBrattle (pastor of First Parish in Cambridge), Thomas Brattle, and Ebenezer Pemberton (pastor of Old South...
1957-1958. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. p. 26. Chadwick, Thomas A.; Maiers, William C. (1965). Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1965-1966...
The Brattle Street Church (1698–1876) was a Congregational (1698 – c. 1805) and Unitarian (c. 1805–1876) church on Brattle Street in Boston, Massachusetts...
founded in 1956 by Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey, Jr., in the historic Brattle Theater, a Harvard Square landmark in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to...
New York – Philip Brasher (landowner) Brattleboro, Vermont – Colonel WilliamBrattle, Jr. (proprietor) Breckenridge - John C. Breckinridge, 4 places in...
moved the theology in a more liberal direction. Specifically, Reverend WilliamBrattle and Reverend Nathaniel Appleton amended their Calvinist preaching to...
de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist (d. 1759) April 18 – WilliamBrattle, Attorney General of Province of Massachusetts Bay as well as a physician...
speculators purchased a 44,000-acre (180 km2) parcel. This group included WilliamBrattle, Jr. for whom Brattleboro, Vermont was named. Other initial purchasers...
at Harvard. He was appointed in 1685 at the same time as WilliamBrattle. Leverett and Brattle managed Harvard College while Harvard's President Increase...
studied theology, and was ordained on October 9, 1717, succeeding WilliamBrattle as Congregational minister in Cambridge. From 1717 to 1779 he was one...
Penelope Vassall house at 94 Brattle Street, Cambridge, is now one of the Commonwealth’s historic homes. Great-grandson William Vassall (1715-1800) differed...
Square was primarily residential in character. Cicely, Negro, slave of WilliamBrattle National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
Antony as "the first considered statement of feminism in this country". WilliamBrattle House – Margaret Fuller also lived in this home in Cambridge later...
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