Case Name: Barristers' Habits
Court: Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1762-08
Citations: 1 Super. Ct. Jud. 35
Docket Number: 
Parties: Barristers’ Habits.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, between 1761 and 1772
Volume: 1
Pages: 35–35

Head Matter:
1762.
Barristers’ Habits.

Opinion:
Memorandum. ( )
JAMES OTIS, Edmund Trowbridge, Jeremy Gridley, Richard Dana, Benjamin Kent, Daniel Farnham, John Worthington, James Otis, junr., James Putnam, Joseph Hawley, John Chipman, Oxenbridge Thacher, Robert Auchmuty, Sam'l White, James Hovey, Samuel Fitch, Jonathan Sewall, William Cushing, Robert Treat Paine, William Pynchon, William Read, Samuel Swift, Joseph Dudley, Benja: Gridley, Samuel Quincy, and John Adams, having been called by the Court to be Barristers at Law, the following Gentlemen, viz., Edmund Trowbridge, Jeremy Gridley, Benjamin Kent, James Otis, junr., Oxenbridge Thacher, Robert Auchmuty, Samuel Fitch, Jonathan Sewall, Robert Treat Paine, Samuel Swift, Samuel Quincy, and John Adams, Esquires, appeared accordingly this Term in Barristers' Habits. ( )
(1) As this memorandum closes the record of the term on the Suffolk docket, it is here inserted, although not a part of Mr. Quincy's reports.
(2) John Adams was sworn on the 14th of November, 1761. Rec. 1761, vol. 239. In a note to his diary at that date he says: "About this time the project was conceived, I suppose by the Chief Justice, Mr. Hutchinson, of clothing the judges and lawyers with robes. Mr. Quincy and I were directed to prepare our gowns and bands and tie wigs, and were admitted barristers, having practised three years at the inferior courts according to our new rules." 2 John Adams's Works, 133. See also Adams's Letters to Tudor, 10 Ib. 233, 245.