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Born a Boston Native in 1710, Thomas Hutchinson displayed a keen intellect along with a devotion to the British government. Though revolutionaries uniformly portrayed him as malevolent and Machiavellian and British officials denigrated his service, Bailyn’s Bailyn's interpretation of Hutchinson strikes a different chord. Rather than a simple tool for the English Crown, Hutchinson frequently protested in favor of colonists' economic rights. Despite revolutionary accusations to the contrary, he opposed both the Stamp Act and Townsend Acts.

If anything, Hutchinson appears to be moderate in a time of overwhelming partisanship. British salutary neglect persisted in spite of despite his continuing requests for Parliamentary action, which , as he predicted, allowed for revolutionary ferment. In contrast, through Hutchinson’s “ordeal”Hutchinson's "ordeal, " one comes to the conclusion concludes that many of the “patriots” "patriots" distorted the governor’s governor's words, in hopes of fomenting discontent among the colonial population. Hutchinson’s Hutchinson's vast experience within the British colonial system of patronage aided his early career and those of his family.