Background
Trowbridge, Edmund was born in 1709 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Thomas and Mary (Goffe) Trowbridge.
Trowbridge, Edmund was born in 1709 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Thomas and Mary (Goffe) Trowbridge.
Trowbridge graduated from Harvard in 1728 and married Martha Remington, a daughter of Judge Jonathan Remington (1677-1745) in 1738.
In 1749, Trowbridge became attorney general for the colony of Massachusetts. However, in 1767 he was removed in favor of someone who was more outraged by British aggression. He was not out of a job for long, as he was appointed Associate Justice for the colony"s supreme judicial court within the year.
In 1770, he was one of the presiding judges for the trial immediately after the Boston Massacre.
Trowbridge retired to private life two years after this trial. He died in 1793 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A street in Cambridge is named after him. Both were buried at Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Ma.
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Married Martha Remington, March 15, 1737/38.