People from colonial Massachusetts

First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801

vice president of the United States from 1813 to 1814

American-born British physicist and inventor (1753–1814)

Anglo-American poet (1612–1672)

early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States (1721–1793)

American physician and judge, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (1729–1795)

American writer

American politician (1758–1808)

Metacomet (c. 1638 in Massachusetts – August 12, 1676), also known as Pometacom, Metacom, and by his adopted English name King Philip, was sachem (elected chief) to the Wampanoag people from 1662–1676, and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. Metacomet became sachem after Massasoit's death. Metacomet was killed on August 12, 1676, near Mount Hope, Rhode Island. Scholars say his death marked the end of King Phillip's War (1675–1678).

Puritan missionary to the American Indians

American lawyer and judge, signer of the US Declaration of Independence (1731-1814)

American writer and advocate for women's rights (1751-1820)

lawyer in colonial Massachusetts (1725-1783)

American author (1755-1831)

American politician (1739-1838)

Continental army soldier (1726-1795)

Continental Army general (1733–1810)

Massachusetts lawyer, governor, and US senator 1745-1819

American politician and Founding Father (1730-1785)

American poet

Continental Army general (1727-1800)

British governor of Massachusetts and then of the Bahamas (1694-1771)

Puritan minister (1586-1647)

American politician (1741-1813)

American soldier, revolutionary, leader of Shays' Rebellion

American colonial farmer, smith and soldier

American loyalist soldier

Governor of Massachusetts; Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice

United States educator and writer

American politician (1772–1851)

African American writer, poet (1730–1821)

American historian (1752-1817)

American politician (1748-1814)

Weetamoo (pronounced Wee-TAH-moo) (c. 1635–1676), also referred to as Weethao, Weetamoe, Wattimore, Namumpum, and Tatapanunum, was a Pocasset Wampanoag Native American Chief. She was the sunksqua, or female sachem, of the Pocasset tribe, which occupied contemporary Tiverton, Rhode Island in 1620. The Pocasset, which she led, was one of the tribes of the Wampanoag.

American puritan minister (1631-1705)

American politician (1752-1828)

American politician (1759–1850)

American politician (1732-1803)

American politician (judge, US Representative, US Senator) (1757-1823)

British colonial administrator (1712-1779)

American judge and politician (1764–1851)

Early Colonial American alchemist

Massachusetts doctor, military officer, and governor (1752-1825)

American explorer (1710-1780)

American politician, U.S. Senator from Maine (1773–1843)

English explorer in North America

author of the first known slave narrative by an African woman in the United States

Mayflower passenger and New World colonist (1602–1685)

American politician (1760-1839)

painter from the United States active in the Netherlands and Great Britain (1727-1792)

Early American colonist from Devon, England

American painter (1768-1836)

founder of Springfield, Massachusetts 1590-1662

American minister (1720-1766)

American suffragist (1712-1778)

Puritan clergyman and pamphleteer in England and Massachusetts

British naturalist and chemist (1745-1821) (1745 in New-Style dating)

English Army major, 1600–1672

Wamsutta ( 16341662), known to the New England colonists as Alexander, was the eldest son of Massasoit (meaning Great Leader) Ousa Mequin of the Pokanoket within the Wampanoag nation, and the brother of Metacomet (or Metacom).

American politician and naval officer (1751-1813)