Thomas was President of Mane (1680-1686)62 and Lieutenant-Governor59 or Deputy Governor (1679-1686)62of Massachusetts.
From 1692 to his death in 1699, he was the judge of the Superior Court.62
He was described as “the fearless denouncer and opponent ot monarchical despotism”; he was named as Treasurer in the charter granted to Harvard in 1650 and after nineteen years in that office, he was Steward for thirteen years. His kinsman Josiah Quincy wrote of him in his history of Harvard that “he was the earliest, most steadfast and faithful of it’s friends”. Such was his ability as a man of business that he came to won ten thousand acres of land at Framingham besides property at Cambridge and other parts of the Colony.62 |