Nathaniel Ames (born 1741)

Nathaniel Ames (October 9, 1741 – July 20, 1822) was an American medical doctor, politician, and teacher.

[2] Nathaniel "enjoyed his role as country doctor, servant of the proletariat, and champion of the common man.

[2] Nathaniel believed the two greatest threats to America were "pettifoggers," a derogatory term he used to describe lawyers, and "Fudderalists.

[2] Fisher increased his protests until Ames finally settled their father's affairs, though he never forgave his family for rushing him.

[3] Nathaniel believed Cabot's intentions were to embarrass the Town of Dedham for its Republican political views[4] and did not attend.

According to his diary entry, he had also "discovered worse malignancy in my bosom friend that I conceived it possible to dwell in human shape.

[9] When Ames died in 1822, he left his fortune to his wife and, upon her death, to the unmarried Hannah, his closest living relative.

[2] He would also frequently create caricature names for them, such as "Prigarchy" for John Adams, lawyers in general, anything British, and Federalists.

[13] The town of Dedham first elected Ames to the Great and General Court in 1790, but he refused the office.

[17] Ames saw political revenge as the reason for the sacking, but those responsible claimed that he had "so interlarded the books with ebullitions of spleen, nonsense, and blackguardism, that it became necessary, for the preservation of the records, to remove him.