• Banishment Act of the State of Massachusetts:

An Act to prevent the return to this state of certain persons therein named and others who have left this state or either of the United States, and joined the enemies thereof.

Richard Lechmere, Esq., his son-in-law (Jonanthan Simpson) and daughter (Margaret Lechmere Simpson) fled Boston prior to the revolution.

Both Richard Lechmere, Esq and Jonathan Simpson, Esq., appear on the banishment list was on this list when