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

Stamp Act Congress

The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting on October 19, 1765 in New York City of representatives from some of the British colonies of North America. They discussed and acted upon the Stamp Act recently passed by the governing Parliament of Great Britain overseas, which did not include any...

 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

Henry Clinton (American War of Independence)

General Sir Henry Clinton KB was a British army officer and politician, best known for his service as a general during the American War of Independence. First arriving in Boston in May 1775, from 1778 to 1782 he was the British Commander-in-Chief in North America...

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.