People from colonial Boston

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

first African-American poet (1753–1784)

American painter (1738-1815)

participant in the Antinomian Controversy

Quaker martyr

American religious minister and scientific writer (1663–1728)

American general and Secretary of War (1750–1806)

Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and Author of "City upon a Hill" (1588-1649)

English pirate (1690–1724)

American doctor (1741-1775)

Puritan minister, academic, activist (1639-1723)

American leader during the American Revolution (1726-1790)

last civilian Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, historian (1711-1780)

English minister, theologian, immigrant to Massachusetts (1585-1652)

Salem witch trial judge; early abolitionist; chief justice of Massachusetts

Massachusetts Federalist politician; governor and senator (1758–1827)

American politician (1756-1831)

American choral composer (1746-1800)

Seventeenth century English politician

mathematician, physicist and astronomer and acting president of Harvard University in 1769 and 1773

Founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry

Chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Massachusetts state legislator, lieutenant governor, and acting governor (1734-1800)

American politician (1765-1848)

American writer

American militiaman (1745-1799)

American lawyer (1744–1775)

American politician and president of Harvard University (1772-1864)

Accuser in the Salem witch trials

Royal governor of Massachusetts (1647-1720)

American Revolution spy (1734 – 1778)

Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1576-1653)

English colonial Congregationalist clergyman 1596-1669

American historian

American artist (1688-1751)

Puritan pastor of Beverly, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials

governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1600-1664)

Lieutenant Governor of colonial Massachusetts, acting governor during Dummer's War, benefactor of The Governor's Academy

English-American colonist (1616–1679); governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

American journalist

American midwife hanged after conviction for allegedly practicing witchcraft

American colonial newspaper printer and publisher (1696-1763)

Oldest soldier in the American Revolution

American merchant and public official

Royal Navy admiral (1761-1834)

American writer and women's rights advocate

American writer and editor (1768-1812)

American merchant banker in Amsterdam (1735-1811)

Colonial American privateer and pirate

American born British-Irish painter and engraver (1749-1806)

First adult accuser in the Salem witch trials

American merchant and politician (1682–1757)

American woman hanged after conviction for witchcraft

American colonial author, printer, newspaper publisher, and almanac publisher

American revolutionary