John Hughes (1711–1772) was a colonial American Servant who played a major role in Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century.
Hughes was a close ally of Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Galloway, both leading figures in the colony.
Faced with mob violence, including attacks on the houses of collectors, Hughes was forced to resign his office.
[2] The Stamp Act Crisis turned Hughes from a popular politician into an exile from Pennsylvania.
He left the colony to take up a post as a Customs Officer—in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1769, and the following year in Charles Town, South Carolina—a position arranged by Benjamin Franklin.