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The Reverend Honorable Solomon Lombard was elected to the Massachusetts General Court in 1765. Lombard Esq. was an Agent to the Boston Convention in 1768, a Representative to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in 1774, a Representative to the Great and General Court at Salem, Massachusetts in 1774 and a Judge of the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas from 1776 to 1781.
An oldest son, Solomon Lombard was born April 5, 1702 in Truro, Maine. A 1723 Harvard University graduate, he came from Truro to marry Sarah Purington in 1724. They settled in Gorham, Maine c.1751. He was called to preach there by the town proprietors the previous year. Rev. Lombard was the first settled clergyman in Gorham. A part of the block house was fitted for public worship where he ministered for about a dozen years. He had several children. His sons, Solomon and Richard had large families.
A Gorham town meeting was held March 12, 1765. Officers elected included Surveyors of Lumber, and Lot layers. They voted Solomon Lombard, Esq. to serve for, and represent, Gorham at the Massachusetts Great Court, convened in Boston July 17, 1766.
As early as September 1768 a Gorham town meeting was held, and Solomon Lombard, Esq. was chosen "An agent to go to Boston, as soon as may be, to join a Convention of agents from other towns in the Province, to consult and resolve upon such measures as may most conduce to the safety and welfare of the inhabitants of this Province at this alarming and critical cuncture." Mr. Lombard was allowed eight days for going to, and returning from Boston They kept up an able, active, and vigorous Committee of Correspondence, composed of men of wisdom, sagacity and firmness."