Category
page 2People from colonial Massachusetts
William Chamberlain
American politician from Vermont (1755-1828)
Edward Preble
American commodore (1761-1807)
Benjamin Abbot
Schoolteacher (1762-1849)
Peleg Wadsworth
Continental Army officer; Congressman from Massachusetts (1748-1829)
Hugh Peters
English preacher, political advisor and soldier
Samuel Lincoln
Ancestor of Abraham Lincoln
Jacob Crowninshield
American politician (1770-1808)
Samuel Hopkins
American theologian
Benjamin Waterhouse
American physician
Ezra Butler
American politician (1763-1838)
Daniel Gookin
English-born soldier and colonial politician (1612–1687)
Bailey Bartlett
American politician (1750-1830)
Sébastien Rale
French missionary
John Allen
American lawyer and politician (1763-1812)
Isaac Backus
American theologian, preacher, missionary, writer, and biblical scholar (1724-1806)
Joseph Badger
American artist (1707-1765)
Thomas Dawes
Massachusetts Revolutionary War-era politician and architect (1731-1809)
Ann Foster
Andover widow accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials
Samuel Thatcher
American politician (1776-1872)
George Leonard
American politician (1729-1819)
Esther Edwards Burr
American writer (1732-1758)
Elijah Brigham
American politician (1751-1816)
Loammi Baldwin, Sr.
American engineer, politician and soldier (1744–1807)
John Lowell
American lawyer (1743-1802)
Samuel Phillips, Jr.
Massachusetts lieutenant governor; founder of Phillips Academy (1752-1802)
Enoch Poor
American general (1736–1780)
Solomon Stoddard
American Colonial pastor 1643-1729
Moses Hazen
American general
Benjamin Adams
American politician (1764-1837)