Category
page 1Sailors from Massachusetts
Jack Kerouac
American writer (1922–1969)
Henry Way Kendall
American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
Douglass North
American economist and Nobel laureate (1920–2015)
Richard Henry Dana
American author and lawyer (1815–1882)
Nathaniel Bowditch
American astronomer and mathematician who founded modern navigation (1773-1838)
Benjamin Briggs
American sailor
Crispus Attucks
African American/Native American, first victim of the Boston Massacre
Frederick Townsend Ward
American general (1831–1862)
Joseph Bates
American sailor, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1792–1872)
Richard Phillips
former captain of the MV Maersk Alabama
Herbert Huncke
American writer and poet (1915–1996)
George Cabot
American Senator (1752-1823)
Mary Ann Brown Patten
American sailor
Thomas Hubbard Sumner
American sea captain (1807–1876)
William Henry Leonard Poe
American sailor and poet (c. 1807 - 1831).
Nathaniel Silsbee
American politician (1773-1850)
Paul Cuffe
American businessman (1759-1817)
Owen Chase
American sailor (1797-1869)
John Kendrick
American sea captain
Rowland Hussey Macy
American businessman (1822–1877)
Bernard C. Webber
United States Coast Guardsman
Irving Johnson
American sailor (1905-1991)
Alfred "Centennial" Johnson
American sailor
Howard Blackburn
American sailor (1859–1932)
Mayhew Folger
American nautical captain
Thomas Nickerson
American sailor and author (1805-1883)
Preserved Fish
New York City shipping merchant (1766-1846)