English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony

The list English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony includes Elizabeth Howe, Anne Hutchinson, Thomas Dudley, William Molineux and Robert Sedgwick (colonist). The list consists of 215 members.

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Anne Hutchinson

American religious figure and colonist (1591–1643)

Overview: Anne Hutchinson (née Marbury; July 1591 – August 1643) was a Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts ...

Date of birth: 20 July 1591

Date of death: 20 August 1643

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Female

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Early colonists in America 16T

16th-century English women 271T

Kieft's War 13T
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Elizabeth Howe

Overview: Elizabeth Howe (née Jackson; c. 1637–July 19, 1692) was one of the accused in the Salem witch trials. She was found guilty and executed on July 19, 1692.

Date of birth: 1635

Date of death: 19 July 1692

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Gender: Female

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American people executed for witchcraft 24T

People executed by the Thirteen Colonies by hanging 37T

17th-century executions by England 45T
3.

Rebecca Nurse

Convicted witch in Salem, Massachusetts (1621–1692)

Overview: Rebecca Nurse (February 13, 1621 – July 19, 1692) was a woman who was accused of witchcraft and executed by hanging in New England during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was fully exonerated fewer ...

Date of birth: 21 February 1621

Date of death: 19 July 1692

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Victim

Gender: Female

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American people executed for witchcraft 24T

People executed by the Thirteen Colonies by hanging 37T

17th-century executions by England 45T
4.

Christopher Holder

Overview: Christopher Holder (1631–1688), was an early Quaker evangelist who was imprisoned and whipped, had an ear cut off, and was threatened with death for his religious activism in the Massachusetts Bay Colony ...

Date of birth: 1631

Date of death: 13 June 1688

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Gender: Male

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People from Winterbourne, Gloucestershire 8T

People from Alveston 5T

17th-century Quakers 77T
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Thomas Dudley

Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1576–1653)

Overview: Thomas Dudley (12 October 1576 – 31 July 1653) was a New England colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne ...

Date of birth: 12 October 1576

Date of death: 31 July 1653

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Politician

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Burials in Boston, Massachusetts 46T

Politicians from Boston, Massachusetts 362T

American Puritans 76T
6.

Captain John Underhill

English, Military

Overview: John Underhill (c. 1608/09 – 21 July 1672) was an early English settler and soldier in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, where he also served as governor; the New Haven Colony ...

Date of birth: 7 October 1597

Date of death: 21 September 1672

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Native American genocide perpetrators 44T

Boston Board of Selectmen members 16T

17th-century male writers 1,320T
7.

William Molineux

Overview: William Molineux (c. 1713 – October 22, 1774) was a hardware merchant in colonial Boston of Irish descent best known for his role in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and earlier political protests

Date of birth: 1717

Date of death: 1774

Age: 56 (age at death)

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People from Beacon Hill, Boston 77T

Huguenot participants in the American Revolution 71T

Kingdom of England emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies 449T
8.

William Bradford (Plymouth governor)

English Separatist leader (1590–1657)

Overview: William Bradford (c. 19 March 1590 – 9 May 1657) was an English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape ...

Date of birth: 19 March 1590

Date of death: 9 May 1657

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Bradford family 7T

16th-century male writers 845T

17th-century male writers 1,224T
9.

Anne Bradstreet

Anglo-American poet

Overview: Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 8, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She ...

Date of birth: 20 March 1612

Date of death: 16 September 1672

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Calvinist and Reformed poets 24T

17th-century American women writers 4T

17th-century American poets 5T
10.

Richard Callicott (New England colonist)

New England colonist

Overview: Richard Callicott (1604–1686) (also spelled "Collacott," "Collicot", "Calicot", "Collacot") was a New England colonist who was a fur trader, land investor, and early leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ...

Date of birth: 1604

Date of death: 1686

Age: 81 (age at death)

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Robert Coles (settler)

Early settler in New England

Overview: Robert Coles (c.– 1655) was a 17th-century New England colonist who is known for the scarlet-letter punishment he received in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and his role in establishing the Providence P ...

Date of birth: 1600

Date of death: 1655

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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Samuel Appleton (born 1625)

Overview: Samuel Appleton (1625 – May 15, 1696) was a military and government leader in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was a commander of the Massachusetts militia during King ...

Date of birth: 1625

Date of death: 15 May 1696

Age: 70 (age at death)

Gender: Male

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Edward Winslow (1595 – 1655)

Governor of Plymouth Colony (1595–1655)

Overview: Edward Winslow (18 October 1595 – 8 May 1655) was a Separatist and New England political leader who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620. He was one of several senior leaders on the ship and also later ...

Date of birth: 18 October 1595

Date of death: 8 May 1655

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Government

Gender: Male

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17th-century male writers 1,224T

Pequot War 24T

American Puritans 76T
14.

Robert Sedgwick (colonist)

American politician

Overview: Major General Robert Sedgwick (c. 1611 – 1656) was an English colonist, born 1611 in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, and baptised on 6 May 1613.

Date of birth: 1611

Date of death: 1656

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Business

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People from Woburn, Bedfordshire 22T

Kingdom of England emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies 449T

17th-century American businesspeople 13T
15.

Isaac Chauncy

English dissenting minister

Overview: Isaac Chauncy (1632–1712) was an English dissenting minister.

Date of birth: 1632

Date of death: 1712

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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18th-century English non-fiction writers 152T

17th-century male writers 1,224T

18th-century male writers 1,354T
16.

Charles Apthorp

English-born merchant and slave trader

Overview: Charles Apthorp (March 1697 – November 1758) was an English-born merchant and slave trader in Boston, Massachusetts. Apthorp managed his import business from Merchants Row, and "in his day he was called ...

Date of birth: 1698

Date of death: 1758

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

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Burials at King's Chapel Burying Ground 1T

Businesspeople from Boston, Massachusetts 297T

Burials in Boston, Massachusetts 46T
17.

Robert Keayne

American politician

Overview: Robert Keayne (1595 – March 23, 1656) was a prominent public figure in 17th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts and served as speaker ...

Date of birth: 1595

Date of death: 23 March 1656

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philanthropist

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Burials in Boston, Massachusetts 46T

Kingdom of England emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies 449T

17th-century philanthropists 67T
18.

Richard Sears (pilgrim)

Overview: Richard Sears (about 1595 - 5 September 1676) was an early settler of New England who lived in both the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony.

Date of birth: 1610

Date of death: 26 September 1676

Age: 66 (age at death)

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Kingdom of England emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies 449T

People from Yarmouth, Massachusetts 15T

1676 deaths 286T
19.

Edmund Quincy (1602–1636)

British, Socialite

Overview: Edmund Quincy I (1602–1636), known as "the Puritan", was an English settler, soldier, colonist, planter, landowner, merchant, and politician of Massachusetts Bay Colony in what later became the United ...

Date of birth: 1602

Date of death: 1636

Age: 33 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Socialite

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Kingdom of England emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies 449T

Quincy family 29T

Colonial American merchants 159T
20.

Sarah Wildes

American convicted of witchcraft and executed

Overview: Sarah Wildes (née Averell/Averill; baptized March 16, 1627 – July 29, 1692 [O.S. July 19, 1692]) was wrongly convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials and was executed by hanging ...

Date of birth: 1627

Date of death: 1692

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Gender: Female

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American people executed for witchcraft 24T

Colonial American women 79T

People executed by the Thirteen Colonies by hanging 37T