e latter part of November,
to the total neglect and ruin of their business."

[53] Stephen Greenleaf, sheriff of Suffolk County, was arrested by the
Council of Massachusetts as a loyalist, in April, 1776. He died in
Boston, in 1795; aged ninety-one.

[54] John Singleton Copley, a famous painter, son-in-law of Richard
Clarke, and father of Lord Lyndhurst, was born in Boston, July 3, 1737,
and died in London, September 9, 1813. He was a self-taught artist, and
after painting many portraits in Boston, settled in London in 1775, and
acquired a high reputation.

[55] John Pownall, many years Clerk of the Reports, Secretary of the
Board of Trade (1754-68,) Deputy Secretary of State (1768-76,) and
afterwards a Commissioner of the Board of Customs, a Magistrate and High
Sheriff of Lincolnshire, died in London, July 17, 1795; aged seventy.
His brother, Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts in 1757-60, afterwards,
while a member of Parliament, opposed the American policy of the
Government.

[56] William Bull, M.D., Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina, from
1764 to 1776, was the son of William, who held the same office from 1738
to 1743, and who was the son of Stephen, one of the early settlers of
South Carolina, and Surveyor-General of the Province. William studied
medicine at the University of Leyden, and was the pupil of the
celebrated Boerhaave. He settled in practice in his native Province;
became a member of the Council in 1751, and in 1763 was Speaker of the
Assembly. Faithful to the Crown, he accompanied the British troops to
England, on their departure in 1782, and died in London, July 4, 1791;
aged eighty-one.

[57] John Morris, Comptroller of Customs at Charleston, S.C., was
permitted, in November, 1775, on account of his impaired health, "to
pass and repass to his Island," during the pleasure of the Provincial
Congress, on condition of parole, to keep away from the King's ships. He
went to England, and died there in 1778.

[58] Sampson Salter Blowers, a distinguished lawyer and jurist, a native
of Boston, and a graduate of Harvard College, (1763,) was, in 1778,
proscribed and banished as a loyalist. In 1770, he was associated with
John Adams and Josiah Quincy in behalf of the British soldiers who were
on trial for their agency in the Boston Massacre. He settled in Halifax,
N.S.; became successively Attorney-General and Speaker of the House;
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and a member of the Council,
retiring