Daniel Leonard

Daniel Leonard (May 18, 1740 – June 27, 1829) was a lawyer from colonial Massachusetts and a Loyalist in the American Revolution.

Leonard accepted an appointment by Governor Thomas Hutchinson to this new royal-controlled Council.

In 1774 and 1775, Leonard, writing under the name "Massachusettensis," wrote a series of letters[1] in support of royal government that were published in a Loyalist Boston newspaper, the Massachusetts Gazette.

Many, including Adams, erroneously believed that Jonathan Sewall had written the Massachusettensis letters.

Exiled from Massachusetts, he served as Chief Justice of Bermuda from 1782 to 1806, and later retired to London.