Category:People from colonial Massachusetts
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This category includes people who were notable in the Province of Massachusetts Bay (and its colonial antecedents) prior to the era of American Revolution. That is, they were notable before 1775.
People who only notable in or after 1775 in the American Revolutionary War are located Category:People of Massachusetts in the American Revolution. Those notable both before and after 1775 can be placed in both categories.
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 15 total.
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Pages in category "People from colonial Massachusetts"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 559 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Elizabeth Pabodie
- Elizabeth Pain
- Robert Treat Paine
- Joseph Palmer (American Revolutionary War general)
- Walter Palmer (Puritan)
- John Parker (captain)
- Nahum Parker
- Thomas Parker (minister)
- Eli Parsons
- Joseph Parsons Jr.
- George Partridge
- Nathaniel Peabody (Boston)
- Peleg Slocum
- Ebenezer Pemberton (minister)
- William Pepperrell
- Peter Jethro
- Sholan
- Hugh Peter
- Elizabeth Porter Phelps
- William Phelps (colonist)
- George Phillips (Watertown)
- Samuel Phillips (minister)
- Samuel Phillips Jr.
- John Pigeon
- William Plumer
- Seth Pomeroy
- Elizabeth Poole
- Enoch Poor
- Salem Poor
- George Popham
- Vincent Potter
- Edward Preble
- Thomas Prence
- Abel Prescott Jr.
- Oliver Prescott
- William Prescott
- Thomas Purchase
- James Putnam (judge)
- William Pynchon
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- William Rainsborowe
- Sébastien Rale
- Edward Rawson (politician)
- Jonathan Remington
- John Rhoades
- Edmund Rice (colonist)
- Jonas Rice
- Thomas Rice (Massachusetts politician, born 1654)
- Thomas Rice (Massachusetts politician, born 1734)
- David Richmond (officer)
- Moses Robinson
- Samuel Robinson (Vermont politician)
- Ezekiel Rogers
- James Rogers (British Army officer)
- Robert Rogers (British Army officer)
- John Rous
- A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
- Silas Royal
- William Royall (settler)
- Samuel Russell (Yale co-founder)
- Henry Ryan (minister)
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- John Saffin
- Daniel Sargent Sr.
- Nathaniel Peaslee Sargent
- Paul Dudley Sargent
- John Sassamon
- Thomas Savage (major)
- Katherine Marbury Scott
- Joshua Scottow
- Isaac Sears
- John Sears (salt producer)
- Robert Seeley
- William Selby
- Jonathan Sewall
- Job Shattuck
- Samuel Shaw (politician)
- Daniel Shays
- David Shepard (surgeon)
- Jeremiah Shepard
- Roger Sherman
- William Shirley
- Samuel Skelton
- John Skinner (early settler)
- Jenny Slew
- Francis Small
- John Smith (settler)
- Thomas Smith (parson)
- William Smith (patriot)
- Samuel Snowden
- George Soule (Mayflower passenger)
- Cyprian Southack
- William Sprague (1609–1675)
- Samuel Spring
- Ebenezer Sproat
- Squaw Sachem of Mistick
- Myles Standish
- Isaac Stearns
- Isaac Stearns Jr.
- Phineas Stearns
- William Stedman
- John Stickney
- Samuel Stillman
- Solomon Stoddard
- Caleb Strong
- John Strong (colonist)
- Increase Sumner
- Belinda Sutton
- Hannah Swarton
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- Lydia Taft
- Silas Talbot
- Tantamous
- Edward Taylor
- Thomas Temple
- Samuel Tenney
- Lucy Terry
- Samuel Thatcher
- Samuel Thaxter
- Simeon Thayer
- John Thomas (American general)
- Rowland Thomas
- Benjamin Thompson
- David Thompson (New Hampshire settler)
- John Thorndike (settler)
- Daniel Thurston
- Robert Titus
- Barlow Trecothick
- Samuel Tucker (naval officer)
- Cotton Tufts
- Benjamin Tupper
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- Waban
- Peleg Wadsworth
- Francis Wainwright
- Samuel Waldo
- Quock Walker
- Mathew Waller
- Charles Josias Wampatuck
- Wamsutta
- Andrew Warde
- Artemas Ward
- Nathaniel Ward
- William Warden (printer)
- Joseph Warren
- Mercy Otis Warren
- David Warriner (Wilbraham)
- Benjamin Waterhouse
- Daniel Waters (minuteman)
- Joseph Weare
- Thomas Smith Webb
- Theophilus Weeks
- Thomas Wellman
- William Wentworth (elder)
- Benjamin West (astronomer)
- Thomas Westbrook
- George Weymouth
- Phillis Wheatley
- Silas Wheeler
- Thomas Wheeler (soldier)
- Simeon Wheelock
- John Wheelwright
- William Whipple
- Resolved White
- Thomas White (patriot)
- Ezekiel Whitman
- Edward Wigglesworth (1732–1794)
- Michael Wigglesworth
- Samuel Willard (physician)
- Simon Willard (Massachusetts colonist)
- Thomas Willett
- Ephraim Williams
- Eunice Kanenstenhawi Williams
- Israel Williams
- John Foster Williams