Lowell (John) is born in Newburyport.

The son of Rev. John and Sarah (Champney) Lowle, John Lowell graduates from Harvard College, studies and practices law, and marries three times (to Elizabeth Cabot Higginson, Susanna Cabot, and Rebecca Tyng), and moves to Boston in 1777. He lives initially near today’s 32 Tremont Street [41], and then on an estate in Roxbury in 1785.* Elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1778, Lowell serves as a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, where he inserts the clause “all men are born free and equal” into the document. Appointed the first U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts and later known as the “Old Judge,” he serves dies in Roxbury on May 6, 1802, and is buried in the Central Burying Ground.