Metcalf Bowler

Member of the Stamp Act Congress

One of the richest merchants of Rhode Island before the American Revolution, he was chosen to be a Representative of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to the Stamp Act Congress of October 19, 1765.

Unmasked as a Paid Informer for the British

In the late 1920s, when an extensive cataloging of the papers of Henry Clinton was undertaken, correspondence was found in which Metcalf Bowler was revealed as a paid informer for the British at the same time that he was hailed as an American Patriot.

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Name	Bowler, Metcalf
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