Lowell (John Jr.) is born in Newburyport.

John Lowell Jr. graduates from Harvard, College, becomes a lawyer, marries Rebecca Amory in 1793,* and subsequently moves to Boston, living at today’s 71 Tremont Street (then Tremont Row). He serves in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1798-1801), inherits his father’s country home, Bromley Vale, in 1802, and subsequently devotes himself to scientific farming and Federalist politics. A member of the Essex Junto, he becomes a writer and polemicist, earning the nickname of “The Rebel.” Lowell dies in Boston on March 12, 1840, and is buried in Roxbury.