Essex Junto

The term was coined as an invective by John Hancock in 1778 to describe the main opponents of a proposed constitution on Massachusetts.

[1] Some politicians identified with the Essex Junto were Timothy Pickering, George Cabot, Fisher Ames, Francis Dana, Nathan Dane, Benjamin Goodhue, Stephen Higginson, Jonathan Jackson, John Lowell, Israel Thorndike, and Theophilus Parsons.

When Hamilton was recruited to the plot to secede New England from the Union, he rejected the offer.

[citation needed] Consequently, the Essex Junto tried to gain the support of Aaron Burr, who accepted the offer.

It supported the Hartford Convention's disaffection with the War of 1812, but the claim that it seriously proposed secession of New England is not considered historically accurate.