Thomas Dawes

[1][2] His positions included membership and chairmanship of the Massachusetts Governor's Council and representative in both the House and Senate.

He ardently supported the Whigs, gaining infamy among Royalists; his house was plundered by the British when they withdrew from Boston in 1776.

Later, he became active in politics, lived in a roomy house on Purchase Street beside John Adams, and worked as an architect and builder designing many notable buildings in Boston, including the Brattle Street Church and repairs and/or modifications on the Old State House in about 1772.

[11] He attended Old South Church from 1786 until his death in 1809, and was a good friend of John Hancock.

Their son Thomas Dawes (July 8, 1757 – July 21, 1825) was a jurist and an alumnus of Harvard University, graduating in 1777, served in the Massachusetts ratifying convention for the United States Constitution in 1787-1788, and served in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1792 to 1802; he married Margaret Greenleaf.

Portrait of Dawes by Gilbert Stuart , c. 1806 . The book he is holding is Architecture by Palladio .
Coat of arms of Thomas Dawes
1782 Massachusetts currency bearing the signature of Thomas Dawes. Paul Revere did the engraving and printing of this "rising sun" currency. On the verso is an image of a pine tree, which was engraved (and sometimes printed) by another noted silversmith and engraver of the time, Nathaniel Hurd . Sometimes the recto would be printed by one printer and the verso by another.
This elevation of the Old State House was drawn by Thomas Dawes when he was 20 years old, and engraved by Nathaniel Hurd . This view shows the building's appearance after having been rebuilt after a fire gutted it in 1747. [ 7 ]