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All adults had to be addressed as Mister, Missus, Miss, Auntie, Cousin, Unk, Uncle, Buhbah, Sister, Brother and a thousand other appellations indicating familial relationship and the lowliness of the addressor.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Nathaniel Coffin was the last Receiver General and Cashier of his Majesty's Customs at the Port of Boston, he was an addressor of Hutchinson in 1774 and of Gage in 1775.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

But, in 1774, he was an addressor of Hutchinson, and was appointed a mandamus councillor.

From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

Samuel Quincy was an addressor of Governor Hutchinson, and a staunch Loyalist.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.