 He joined protests against tightening restrictions of colonial trade, and helped incite the anti-Stamp Act riot in 1765 that destroyed Chief Justice Thomas Hutchinson's home.Carl Becker mostly ignored John Rowe in "The Eve of Revolution" (1918), but he did include a letter written by Thomas Hutchinson.In the letter, Hutchinson claimed that Rowe, Otis and Molineux and Davies provoked the protesters who destroyed Hutchinson's house on 26 August 1765