. Under the pseudonym “Honestus,” Benjamin Austin had published articles in the Boston
, between March and June which attacked the legal procedures in the Commonwealth and
called for the abolition of lawyers, a profession which had become prosperous, it
was alleged, during a period of economic hardship for others.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2016.