Category
page 1Merchants from colonial Massachusetts

John Hancock
American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793)
Timothy Dexter
American businessman and author (1747–1806)
Thomas Hutchinson
last civilian Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, historian (1711-1780)
Nathaniel Gorham
American businessman and politician 1738-1796
Thomas Cushing
First Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, briefly acting governor (1725-1788)
Tristram Dalton
American politician (1738-1817)

William Pepperrell
British Army general (1696-1759)
George Cabot
American Senator (1752-1823)
Simon Bradstreet
last governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony; husband of poet Anne Bradstreet

Moses Gill
Massachusetts state legislator, lieutenant governor, and acting governor (1734-1800)
Thomas Willett
Mayor of New York City
John Hathorne
Salem merchant, magistrate, and military leader; judge of the Salem witch trials
John Leverett
English-American colonist (1616–1679); governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
Peter Faneuil
wealthy American colonial merchant, slave trader, and philanthropist
Andrew Oliver
American merchant and public official
Jonathan Belcher
American merchant and politician (1682–1757)