USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Hutchinson, (born September 9, 1711, Boston, Massachusetts [U.S.]-died June 3, 1780, London, England), royal governor of the British North American Province of Massachusetts Bay (1771–74) whose stringent measures helped precipitate colonial unrest and eventually the American Revolution (1775–83).

Detailed explanation-2: -Massachusetts’ Last Civilian Royal Governor After the Boston Tea Party, Hutchinson sailed to England in 1774 to help defuse the growing tension between the Colonies and the British government. General Thomas Gage, commander of the British forces in North America, replaced him as governor.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Winthrop, (born January 22 [January 12, Old Style], 1588, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England-died April 5 [March 26], 1649, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony [U.S.]), first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the chief figure among the Puritan founders of New England.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Winthrop was elected governor in October, but did not formally take charge of the colony until he arrived in 1630. Colonial officials (governor, deputy governor, and the council of assistants) were elected annually from then on by the freemen of the colony.

Detailed explanation-5: -After Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused, Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the “tea party” with about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty, his underground resistance group. The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of December 16 was valued at some $18, 000.