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English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Anne Bradstreet
Anglo-American poet (1612–1672)
Anne Hutchinson
participant in the Antinomian Controversy
John Harvard
English-American clergyman and philanthropist
Mary Dyer
Quaker martyr
John Winthrop
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and Author of "City upon a Hill" (1588-1649)
William Bradford
English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymouth Colony (1590-1657)
John Eliot
Puritan missionary to the American Indians
Susanna Rowson
English-born American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, educator, geographer (1762-1824)
Mary Rowlandson
American woman captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War
Samuel Sewall
Salem witch trial judge; early abolitionist; chief justice of Massachusetts
John Cotton
English minister, theologian, immigrant to Massachusetts (1585-1652)
Edward Winslow
Mayflower passenger (1595-1655)
William Shirley
British governor of Massachusetts and then of the Bahamas (1694-1771)
Bridget Bishop
woman executed for witchcraft during Salem witch trials
Giles Corey
Executed in the Salem witch trials
Henry Vane the Younger
Seventeenth century English politician
Rebecca Nurse
Convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials (1621-1692)
Myles Standish
English military officer hired by the Pilgrims (1584-1656)
Michael Wigglesworth
American puritan minister (1631-1705)
Simon Bradstreet
last governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony; husband of poet Anne Bradstreet
Samuel Parris
Colonial merchant and clergyman
Thomas Shepard
American minister in New England
John Endecott
governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1600-1664)
Richard Mather
English colonial Congregationalist clergyman 1596-1669
Thomas Dudley
Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1576-1653)
Thomas Morton
Early American colonist from Devon, England
William Pynchon
founder of Springfield, Massachusetts 1590-1662
Mary Eastey
woman executed in the Salem witch trials
Samuel Lincoln
Ancestor of Abraham Lincoln
George Burroughs
American pastor convicted of witchcraft
William Fairfax
American politician
Theophilus Eaton
Founder of New Haven, Connecticut, first governor of the New Haven Colony
John Underhill
early settler of American colonies, Captain of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Militia
Mary Webster
American accused of witchcraft
Charles Chauncy
American clergyman, president of Harvard College (1592–1672)
Samuel Shute
English military officer and governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Ann Foster
Andover widow accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials
Robert Treat
English soldier, governor of the Connecticut Colony
Mary Bradbury
Salem witch trials defendant
Josiah Franklin
British businessman (1657-1745)