ESSEX JUNTO

group of New England merchants and lawyers, so called because many of them came from Essex co., Mass. They opposed the radicals in Massachusetts in the American Revolution and supported the Federalist faction of Alexander Hamilton. They later encouraged the disaffection of the Hartford Convention. Prominent among them were Timothy Pickering, George Cabot, and Theophilus Parsons.

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Jacobin and Junto: Or, Early American Politics as Viewed in the Diary of Dr. Nathaniel Ames, 1758-1822
Book by Charles Warren; Harvard University Press, 1931
Subjects: Ames, Nathaniel--1741-1822, United States--Politics And Government--1783-1809, United States--Politics And Government--1809-1917, United States--Politics And Government--1817-1825
...of the men who composed the Junto, it was more cordially detested...Constitution, to a group of Essex County men -- Theophilus Parsons...general Republican view of the Junto was expressed by Benjamin Austin...constituted the Nation. To the Essex Junto, Jefferson himself seemed...
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The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780: A Social Compact
Book by Ronald M. Peters Jr.; University of Massachusetts Press, 1978
Subjects: Constitutional History--Massachusetts, Social Contract
...in revolutionary Massachusetts was the Essex Junto. 29 This was a group of political conservatives from Essex County who played an important role in...Junto surfaced as far back as 1775, when Essex County assumed the lead in opposing the...
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The Federalist Years to the Civil War - Vol. 1
Book by Philip H. Burch Jr.; Holmes & Meier, 1981
Subjects: Business And Politics--United States--History, Elite (Social Sciences)--United States--History, United States--Officials And Employees--Selection And Appointment--History, United States--Politics And Government--1789-1815, United States--Politics And Government--1815-1861
...Fischer believes that the power of the Essex Junto has been much overrated see "The Myth of the Essex Junto," William and Mary Quarterly April...Massachusetts scurried to furl topsails when the Essex Junto roared the command." 18. See Robert...
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The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860
Book by Samuel Eliot Morison; Houghton, Mifflin, 1921
Subjects: Massachusetts--Commerce--History, Massachusetts--History
...necessary, and statesmanlike in Essex County, Massachusetts. It was just...administrations; and his privy council was the Essex Junto. This remarkable group of men...intelligent merchants and lawyers of Essex origin, who had migrated to Boston...
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Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810
Book by A. G. Roeber; University of North Carolina Press, 1981
Subjects: Courts--Virginia--History, Judges--Virginia--History, Law--Virginia--History, Lawyers--Virginia--History
...Roane, and Brockenbrough families of Essex County were enthusiastic about the...leaders, like Meriwether Smith of Essex, George Mason of Fairfax, and their...Scholars have long known that the " Essex Junto," later known as the "Richmond...
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journal articles on: Essex Junto  - 12 results

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The Social Origins of Plea Bargaining: Conflict and the Law in the Process of State Formation, 1830-1860
Journal article by Mary E. Vogel; Law & Society Review, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Courts, Criminal sentences, History, Law, Plea bargaining
...England Federalism and the party directorate, known as the Essex Junto, came mostly from . . . its mercantile clans" (ibid...little irony that "We are now all Republicans, even the Essex Junto."66 Due to intensity of the outcry, many forget that...
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A History of Inter-american Relations-print, Politics, and Commerce in the United States and Mexico, 1800-1830
Journal article by Nancy Vogeley; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 101, 2011
Subjects: Academic libraries, American literature, Books, Letters, Postcolonialism, Society
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Thomas Jefferson, Coercion, and the Limits of Harmonious Union
Journal article by Brian Steele; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: Confederate States of America--History, Jefferson, Thomas (American president)--Domestic policy, President of the United States--Domestic policy, Secession--History, Unionism (United States)--Analysis, Unionism (United States)--History, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...possibility of a separate treaty between England and your Essex men." Jefferson did not broach the subject of coercion...123-90; and David H. Fischer, "The Myth of the Essex Junto," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 21 (April...
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Thomas Jefferson's Nationalist Vision of New England and the War of 1812
Journal article by Arthur Scherr; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas--Evaluation, Jefferson, Thomas--Political activity, New England--History, United States history--War of 1812, War of 1812, War--History, Wars--History
...Federalist leaders, headed by Pickerings Massachusetts "Essex Junto," favored the United States eventual return to monarchy...monarchy, and separation, then, are the principles of the Essex federalists, Anglomany and monarchy, those of the Hamiltonians...
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U.s. National Security and Party Politics: the Consensus on Louisiana, 1789-1803
Journal article by Donald E. Heidenreich Jr.; The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 62, 2003
Subjects: Antebellum period, International relations-US, Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826), Louisiana, National security, Politics, Territorial issues
...threat Louisiana posed. In particular, prominent New England Federalists, led by men such as Fisher Ames and by the Essex Junto, opposed the purchase of Louisiana. In October 1803, Ames wrote, "that the acquiring of territory with money is...
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encyclopedia articles on: Essex Junto  - 6 results

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Essex Junto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ESSEX JUNTO group of New England merchants and lawyers, so called because many of them came from Essex co., Mass. They opposed the radicals in Massachusetts in the American...
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Parsons, Theophilus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...American jurist, b. Byfield, Mass. One of the leading lawyers in New England, he was an outstanding member of the Essex Junto , which opposed (1778) the state constitution as framed by the legislature. As a delegate to the subsequent state...
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New England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...adverse effect on the regions trade, and opposition to the war was so great that New England threatened secession (see Essex Junto ; Hartford Convention ). After the war the growth of manufacturing (especially of cotton textiles) was rapid, and...
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Cabot, George
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Boston branch in 1803. In the Federalist discontent at the beginning of the 19th cent., Cabot was a leader of the Essex Junto and presided over the Hartford Convention . See biography by his grandson, H. C. Lodge (1877...
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Federalist Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and lost the election. While the country was at war, the disgruntled merchants of New England, represented by the Essex Junto , contemplated secession and called the Hartford Convention . Thus, paradoxically the Federalists became the champions...
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