Author: Lisle, Henry Maurice
Biography:
Lisle, Henry Maurice (d 1814: Hollis)
A native of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and a lawyer, he emigrated to the US in 1795 and settled in Milton MA, just outside Boston. In 1798 he petitioned successfully for naturalization as a US citizen. He was active in the community, with several orations and addresses published between 1800 and 1808. He was a Freemason, Master of the Union Lodge in Dorchester in 1805. Though documentary evidence is lacking, he must have been married: in the dedicatory poem to Milton Hill, he describes himself as "a willing votary" in "wedlock's chains." But he returned to the Islands. He is recorded in 1811 as a member of the Assembly of the Virgin Islands and an assistant counsel to the Solicitor General Paul Horsland, who was the chief prosecutor for an important case--a slave owner who was executed for the murder of one of his slaves. Lisle died in Tortola. (ancestry.com 16 Nov. 2019; John Andrew, The Hanging of Arthur Hodge [2000])