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* '''[[Nicholas Danforth (1589-1699)|Nicholas Danforth, Gent.]]''' was born in Feb 1589 in Haverhill, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk, England to Thomas Danforth (1560-1620) and Jane Sudbury (1563-1601) and died in 1639 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was baptized in 1589/90 in London, England. He married on 11 Feb 1618 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England to Elizabeth Symmes. She was born in 1596 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England to Thomas Symmes (-) and died on 22 Feb 1628 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England.
  
* '''[[Nicholas Danforth (1589-1699)|Nicholas Danforth, Gent.]]''' was born in Feb 1589 in Haverhill, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk, England to Thomas Danforth (1560-1620) and Jane Sudbury (1563-1601) and died in 1639 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was baptized in 1589/90 in London, England. He married on 11 Feb 1618 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England to Elizabeth Symmes. She was born in 1596 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England to Thomas Symmes (-) and died on 22 Feb 1628 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England.
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** '''Dep. Gov. Judge Thomas Danforth, Esq.''' was born on 20 Nov 1623 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England and died on 5 Nov 1699 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. In 1650 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts he was Treasurer of Harvard College. In 1665 he was a member of a Committee that oversaw the extension of the Massachusetts colonial authority over the territories of what is now Southern Maine. From 1679 to 1682 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts he was Steward of Harvard College. In 1680 he was chosen President of the District of the Colony of Maine by the Massachusetts assembly. From 1689 to 1692 he was Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was Lord Proprietor of southern Maine until 1680. He was Justice of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Superior Court. He was appointed to administer the agents of Massachusetts that purchased the territory of southern Maine from Sir Ferdinando Gorges. He took part in of the events of King Phillip's War. He was the sole proprietor of 15,000 acres which eventually became Framingham, Massachusetts even though the town did not become incorporated until after his death.
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**'''Dep. Gov. Judge Thomas Danforth, Esq.''' was born on 20 Nov 1623 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England and died on 5 Nov 1699 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. In 1650 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts he was Treasurer of Harvard College. In 1665 he was a member of a Committee that oversaw the extension of the Massachusetts colonial authority over the territories of what is now Southern Maine. From 1679 to 1682 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts he was Steward of Harvard College. In 1680 he was chosen President of the District of the Colony of Maine by the Massachusetts assembly. From 1689 to 1692 he was Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was Lord Proprietor of southern Maine until 1680. He was Justice of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Superior Court. He was appointed to administer the agents of Massachusetts that purchased the territory of southern Maine from Sir Ferdinando Gorges. He took part in of the events of King Phillip's War. He was the sole proprietor of 15,000 acres which eventually became Framingham, Massachusetts even though the town did not become incorporated until after his death
 
** '''Rev. Samuel Danforth''' was born in Sep 1626 in Framingham, Suffolk, England and died on 19 Nov 1674 in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1643 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony he graduated from Harvard College. In 1647, 1648 and again in 1648 he published three almanacks. In 1650 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony he became one of the five founding Fellows of Harvard College. On 24 Sep 1650 he became an ordained minister and "ordained assistant to the noble "Apostle to the Indians." Also 1650 he became the pastor of the First Church of Roxbury in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He seemed to be friends and "greatly increased the power of his minister, especially the last summer. He cordially joined with me in the maintaining the pease of the church. We consulted about beautifying the house of God with ruling elders, and to order the congregation into the primitive way of Collections." Rev. Danforth was also an astronomer: On "1652, 9th, 10. There appeared a comet in the heaven in Orion, which continued it's course toward the senith for ye space of a fortnight, till Mr. Cotton's death. 1672, 12, 6th. A greateclipse of ye sun, withyc at ye eastward was total and central, inasmuch that ye starts appeared about ye Sun." He bought three tracts of land.
  
** '''Rev. Samuel Danforth''' was born in Sep 1626 in Framingham, Suffolk, England and died on 19 Nov 1674 in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1643 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony he graduated from Harvard College. In 1647, 1648 and again in 1648 he published three almanacks. In 1650 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony he became one of the five founding Fellows of Harvard College. On 24 Sep 1650 he became an ordained minister and "ordained assistant to the noble "Apostle to the Indians." Also 1650 he became the pastor of the First Church of Roxbury in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He seemed to be friends and "greatly increased the power of his minister, especially the last summer. He cordially joined with me in the maintaining the pease of the church. We consulted about beautifying the house of God with ruling elders, and to order the congregation into the primitive way of Collections." Rev. Danforth was also an astronomer: On "1652, 9th, 10. There appeared a comet in the heaven in Orion, which continued it's course toward the senith for ye space of a fortnight, till Mr. Cotton's death. 1672, 12, 6th. A greateclipse of ye sun, withyc at ye eastward was total and central, inasmuch that ye starts appeared about ye Sun." He bought three tracts of land.
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** '''Hon. Capt. Jonathan Danforth''' was born in about 1627 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England and died on 7 Sep 1712 in Billerica, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts. He was the founder of Billerica, Massachusetts and was a Selectman of Billerica, Town Clerk of Billerica, Representative of Billerica, Surveyor of Billerica and Captain of the Billerica Militia.
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** '''Hon. Capt. Jonathan Danforth''' was born in about 1627 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England and died on 7 Sep 1712 in Billerica, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts. He was the founder of Billerica, Massachusetts and was a Selectman of Billerica, Town Clerk of Billerica, Representative of Billerica, Surveyor of Billerica and Captain of the Billerica Militia
   
 
== Dorsey ==
  
== Dorsey ==
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* Hon. Benjamin Harrison V (1726-1791), he was a Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Charles City County, Viriginia 5 May 1777-1 Dec 1781, he was Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates 7 May 1781-1 May 1781, he was the 5th Governor of the Virginia
  
* Hon. Benjamin Harrison V (1726-1791), he was a Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Charles City County, Viriginia 5 May 1777-1 Dec 1781, he was Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates 7 May 1781-1 May 1781, he was the 5th Governor of the Virginia
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** Benjamin Harrison VI (1755-1799), he was a merchant, planter and politician, he was founding farther of the United States of America and a signer of the Declaration of Independence
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** Benjamin Harrison VI (1755-1799), he was a merchant, planter and politician, he was founding farther of the United States of America and a signer of the Declaration of Independence
 
** William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), he was the 9th President of the United States, he held the rank of Major General during the War of 1812
  
** William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), he was the 9th President of the United States, he held the rank of Major General during the War of 1812
 
*** Hon. John Scott Harrison (1804-1787), he was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives 4 Mar 1853-3 Mar 1857
  
*** Hon. John Scott Harrison (1804-1787), he was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives 4 Mar 1853-3 Mar 1857
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**** Benjamin Harrison (1883-1901), he was the 23rd President of the United States of America, he held the rank of of Brevet Brig. Gen. in the Army of Cumberland, he was the Commander of the 70th Ind. Infantry Regiment
 
*** Carter Bassett Harrison (1811-1830, he was an American attorney
  
*** Carter Bassett Harrison (1811-1830, he was an American attorney
   
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== Derby ==
  
== Derby ==
 
Derby Family
  
Derby Family
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* Hon. Capt. Richard Derby, Jr. (1712-1783), he was a "merchant prince" and sea captain, he had one of the largest fleets in Salem, Massachusetts
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** Capt. Richard Derby III (1736-1781), he was a sea captain
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** Elias Hasket "King" Derby (1739-1799)
   
 
== Dorsey ==
  
== Dorsey ==

Revision as of 16:28, 22 January 2022

Adams

Adams Family

Apthorp

Apthorp Family

  • Charles Apthorp (1698-1758), immigrant from England, he was the paymaster of the British forces during the American Revolutionary War, he was a slave trader, he was a successful merchant with "imperial trading connections," he was a "venerable slave importer and one of the richest men in Boston by 1746, he was the founder of Apthorp & Son by 1756, he was "paymaster and commissary under the British Government of the land and naval forces quartered in Boston," "he was the wealthiest merchant of his time"Thomas Apthorp (1741-), he was made paymaster to the British forces after his father's death, which he held until 1776
    • Charles Ward Apthorp (1726-1797), he was a Member of the New York Council 1763-1783, he was a proprietor of lands in Maine and large amounts of land in Boston, Brookline and Roxbury in Massachusetts all of which were confiscated after the American Revolutionary War since he was a loyalist to the crown
    • Capt. John Apthorp (1730-1772) he delivered the news in secret of the beginning and end of the American Revolutionary War to the Crown
    • James Apthorp (1730-1799), he was a "merchant prince"
      • Sarah Wentworth Apthorp (1759-1846), she was a poet, she wrote an elegy on a slain African at St. Domingo in 1791, she wrote The African Chief in 1792, her pen name was Philenia, her first book was printed in 1790, she was one of the first novelists in America, the Massachusetts Magazine dubbed her the "American Sappho," she married Hon. Perez Morton (1751-1837), Massachusetts Attorney General, two time Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
      • Capt. Charles Apthorp II (1761-1804), he was a Royal British Navy Captain
    • Rev. Dr. East Apthorp (1733-1816), he was a minister

Amory

Amory Family

Applton

Appleton Family

Astor

Astor Family

  • John Jacob Astor, he was a fur trader
  • William Backhouse Astor, Sr. (1792-1875), businessman
    • John Jacob Astor (1822-1890), he was the wealthiest member of the family of his generation
      • William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848-1919), he was born in Manhattan, New York but died in London, England
  • Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879-1952)
    • William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, MP (1907-1966)

Bacon

Bacon Family

Bates

Bates Family

  • Benjamin Bates I (c. 1651–1710); merchant banker, family patriarch
  • Benjamin Bates II (1716 – c. 1820); member of the Hell Fire Club, revolutionary
  • Benjamin Bates IV (1808–1878); philanthropist, namesake and benefactor of Bates College
  • John Grenville Bates (1880-1944) - a co-founder of the American Kennel Club[2] and former President and Show Chairman of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
  • Joshua Bates (1788-1864); Barings Bank partner, managed many Brahmin family fortunes, advised Adams family on Court protocol, his only daughter became wife to a Belgian prime minister.

Bland

Bland family

  • Hon. Theodrick Bland of Westover (1629-1671), immigrant from England, he was Burchess representing Charles City County 1661-1672 two times, he was 12th Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1660-1660
    • Thodrick Bland (1663-1700), he was partially responsible for the survey of Williamsburg, Virginia
    • Hon. Richard Bland I (1665-1720), he was Burgesses representing Charles City County 1693-1694, he was Burgesses representing Charles City County 1700-1704, he was Burgesses representing Prince George County 1705-1706
      • Hon. Theodrick Bland (1708-1784), he was a Member of the Virginia Senate from Isle of Wight, Surrey and Prince George Counties 7 Oct 1776-2 May 1779
      • Hon. Richard Bland (1710-1776), he was Burgesses representing Prince George County 1742-1776, he was Delegate representing Prince George County 7 Oct 1778-28 Oct 1776

Bolling

Bolling family

  • Col. Robert Bolling I (1646-1709), he was a wealthy early American settler, planter and merchant, he married Jane Rolf (1650-1676), who was the great grandaughter of Pocahontas (c.1596-1617)
    • Col. John Fairbax Bolling (1676-1729), he was a colonist, farmer and politician
      • Maj. John Kennon Bolling II (1700-1757), he was given a seat in the General Assembly for 30 years by the people as well as Judge of Chesterfield County, Virginia, he was the commanding officers of the Chesterfield County Militia with the title and rank of County Lieutenant
        • Maj. Thomas Bolling (1735-1804)
        • Col. Robert Bolling (1738-1775), he was a poet and a politician, on his way back to Virginia, he stopped off in London, England and was admitted to the Middle Temple for legal studies
        • Col. John Bolling of Chestnut Grove (1737-1800)
    • Col. Robert Bolling II (1682-1749), he was a Colonel in the Virginia Militia, he was Surveyor of Prince George County, Virginia
      • Edith Bolling (1872-1961), she was the 1st Lady of the United States and wife of President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

Boylston

Boylston Family

Bradlee

Bradlee Family

  • John Bradley (1605-1642), immigrant from England
  • Nathan Bradley (1631-1701), first Bradley born in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Samuel Bradlee I (1707-1768), elected Constable of Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1753
    • Sarah Bradlee (1740-1835), was dubbed the "Mother of the Boston Tea Pary," helped wounded soldiers during the American Revolutionary War
    • Capt. David Bradlee (1742-1811, participated in the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party and was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
    • Thomas Bradlee (1744-1805), participated in the Boston Tea Party
    • Nathan Bradlee, participated in the Boston Tea Party
    • Pvt. Josiah Bradlee, participated in the Boston Tea Party and was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, he married Hannah Putnam (1758-1793), niece of Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam (1718-1790)
    • Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1778-1860), founder of Josiah Bradlee & Co. a successful shipping and whaling firm, he owned a ship called the Spermo
      • Frederic Hall Bradlee (1807-1887), he became a millionaire in 1851
      • Josiah Bradlee III (1837-1902), he was the President of the Somerset Club in Boston, Massachusetts and had a house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, he married Alice Crowninshield (1839-1926), daughter of Hon. Col. Francis Boardman Crowninshield (1809-1877), Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
        • Frederick Josiah Bradlee I (1866-1951), he graduated from Harvard in 1888, he worked at as an agent at the real estate firm of J. Murray Howe & Bradlee
        • James Bowdoin Bradlee (1873-1962), he worked as a volunteer investigator for the U.S. Department of Justice
        • Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee (1881-1928), he was an engineer in 1910 and a noted marine and railroad historian and writer
          • Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892-1970), graduated from Harvard, he was President and Treasurer of the Cosmos Chemical Corporation, Secretary of the National Shwmut Bank in Boston, Massachusetts
            • Frederick Josiah Bradlee III (1919-2003), author and actor on and off of Broadway
            • Benjamin Crowninshield "Ben" Bradlee (192-2014), graduated from Harvard in 1942, he became the Managing Editor of the Washington Post during the Watergate Scandal

Brice

Brice Family

  • John Brice, Jr. (1705-1766)
  • Hon. John Brice III (1738-1820), Mayor of Annapolis, lawyer, businessman and political leader
  • Gov. James Brice (1746-1801), Governor of Maryland, Mayor of Annapolis, Maryland

Brook

Brooke Family

  • Gov. Robert Brooke, Sr. (1602-1655), Governor of Maryland for three months
  • Maj. Thomas Brooke, Sr. (1632-1676), Member of the House of Burgess, High Sheriff and Chief Justice
  • Col. Thomas Brook, Jr. (1659-c1630), 2 degree Governor of Restored Proprietary Government

Cabot

Cabot Family

The Boston Brahmin Cabot family descended from John Cabot (b. 1680 in Jersey, one of the Channel Islands), who emigrated from his birthplace to Salem, Massachusetts in 1700.

Calvert

Calvert Family

  • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1580-1632), he was Secretary of State 1618-1625 in England
    • The Honourable Leonard Calvert (1606-1647), immigrated on the ship the Dove from England, he was the 1st Proprietary-Governor of Maryland, 1634-1647
    • Hon. Philip Calvert (c.1626-1682), immigrated on the ship the Dove from England, he was the 5th Proprietary-Governor of Maryland, 1660-1661

Carroll

Carroll Family

  • Hon. Charles Carroll the Settler (1661-1720), Attorney General of the Maryland Colony
  • Charles Carroll II of Annapolis (1702-1782)
  • Hon. Charles Carroll (1723-1783) (barrister)
  • Hon. Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832), United States Senator form Maryland
  • Hon. Daniel Carroll (1730-1796), Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland's 6th district
  • The Most Reverend John Carroll, SJ (1735-1815), Archbishop of Baltimore
  • Hon. John Lee Carroll (1830-1911), 37th Governor of Maryland, Maryland State Senate
  • Col. Henry James Carroll (-)
  • Thomas King Carroll (1793-1873), 21st Governor of Maryland
  • Anna Ella Carroll (1815-1894), politician
  • Hon. James Carroll (1791-1873), Judge of the orphan's court and a trustee of the poor, Director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company
  • Brevet Maj. Gen. Samuel Sprigg "Red" Carroll ( 1832-1893), Commander of the 8th Ohio Infantry, fought in the Battle of Gettysburg

Chandler

Chandler Family

  • William Chandler (1595-1642), immigrant from England
    • Deacon John Chandler I (1634-1703), immigrant from England, on the Committee to build a Meeting house for the town of Woodstock, Ct, he purchased 1,500 acres called "The Mashaoquet Pruchase," Selectman of Woodstock, Ct from 1693-1694, Town Moderator of Woodstock, Ct on 26 Oct 1694, Deacon of the Church of Woodstock, Ct
      • Col. Hon. John Chandler III (1665-1743), he was on the Town Committee 1693-1694, elected Selectman of Woodstock in 1694, licensed to keep a house of entertainment in New London in 1698, elected Town Surveyor of Woodstock on 3 Apr 1703, he was a Representative 1711-1713, he held the rank of Major in Apr 1721, he was given orders to recruit 20 men in Jul 1722, he was commissioned the first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas by the Chief Justices on 30 Jun 1731, he was chosen Colonel of the 1st Company of Worcester County, he was Commissioner of the Pease for nearly forty years, he was the first Town Clerk of Woodstock
        • Col. Hon. John Chandler IV, Esq. (1693-1762), he was Clerk of the Worcester Courts 1731-1754, he was Representatives of Worcester, Massachusetts from 1732-1735, 1737-1740, 1738, 1738, 1752, 1753, he was Selectman of Worcester 1733-1735, he joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in Boston, Massachusetts in 1734, he was chosen Commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1737, he was Treasurer of Worcester 1742-1753, he was proprietor of 500 acres, he was Sheriff of Worcester 1751-1754, he was elected Judge of the Courts of Worcester on 19 Apr 1754, he was Register of Probate until 1754n he became Chief Justice in May 1757, he was elected Selectman of Walpole, New Hampshire on 17 Mar 1762, he was Clerk of the Interior Courts and Courts of Sessions
          • Gen. Hon. John Chandler V (1720-1800), he was Sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts 1751-1762, he was Treasurer of Worcester 1753-1760, he marched on the alarm for the relief of Fort William as Colonel of a regiment in Aug 1757, he was Judge of Probate 1762-1774, he was Treasurer of Worcester County, he was Town Clerk of Worcester 1764-1768
          • Lt. Col. Gardiner Chandler (1723-1782), he was Selectman of the Town of Worcester 1754-1756, he was Treasurer of Worcester County 1754-1762, he was Major and Commander of Capt. John Curtis's company of 54 men on 2 Aug 1757, he was chosen Collector of Taxes of Worcester County Taxes on 5 Feb 1762, he was Sheriff of the Town of Worcester 1762, 1775
          • Brig. Gen. Hon. John Chandler (1762-1841), he enlisted in the Continental Army at age 15 and fought in the American Revolutionary Ward, he held the rank of Major General in the Massachusetts Militia and a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army, he was a soldier in the War of 1812, he was Member of the Massachusetts Senate 1803-1805, He was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 17th district, he was 1st President of the Maine Senate March 15, 1820 - June 19th, 1820, he was a United States Senator June 14, 1820-March 3, 1829, he was the son of Zachariah Chandler (1751-1830) and Sarah Patten (1749-1842)
        • Capt. William Chandler (1698-1754), he was a farmer of a farm of about a thousand acres that extended over Chandler's Hill, he was a military captain in Woodstock, Connecticut, he was a Highway Surveyor in Connecticut
        • Capt. Samuel Chandler (1705-1781), he was Captain of the 1st Company of Worcester County, Massachusetts
        • Hon. Col. Thomas Chandler, Esq. (1709-1785), he was Moderator of the last town meeting in New Flamstead, New Hampshire under the New Hampshire charter on 12 Mar 1755, his family was the first family to settle New Flamstead for which he received 500 acres from the town proprietors in 1761, he was responsible for naming the town of what is now called Chester, New York, he was a moderator of the meeting of the proprietors of New Flamstead, which was held in Worcester County, Massachusetts, he was appointed 1st Justice of the Peace of Albany, New York on 20 Jan 1766, he was Colonel of a company of about 600 men
      • Capt. Joseph Chandler II (1683-1750), he was Collector of Taxes in 1726

Chaffee/Chafee

Caffee Family

Originally of Hingham, Massachusetts:

Choate

Choate Family

  • Sgt. John Choate I (1624-1695), immigrant from England, he was a farmer on Hog Island, Chebacco, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, he was a Sergeant in the militia
    • Capt. Samuel Choate (c.1663-1713), he was a merchant marine officer
    • Capt. Hon. Thomas "The Governor" Choate (1671-1745), he was a witness of the will of John Proctor who was hanged during the Salem Witch Trials, he was the proprietor and first settler on Hog Island, he was proprietor of seven farms on Hog Island, Ipswich, Massachusetts, the Randall Andrews farm which was 400 acres, a farm in the West Parish, one on Jeffrey's Neck and the farm to which he had removed from he was a Representative from Ipswich for four years
      • Col. Hon. John Choate, Esq. (1697-1765), he was a Representative from Ipswich to the General Court of Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1732, 1733, 1735, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1754, 1757 and 1760, for five years he was a member of the Council, he was on 16 committees through out his public life, he was on the Committee to settle the dispute of the land boundary of what is now Massachusetts and Rhode Island, he was commissioned by Gov. Shirley to be the Colonel of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment, he served as Judge Advocate of a Court of Admiralty at Louisburg on 20 Jun 1745, he was made 5th Judge of Probate of Essex County in 1756, he was chosen Treasurer of Essex County from 11 Jul 1761 to Mar 1761
      • Elder Francis "Esquire Francis" Choate (1701-1777), he was the Ruling Elder of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts
      • Capt. William Choate (1730-1785), he became a ship captain at 25 years old, he was an American Revolutionary War soldier, he was a school teacher during the American Revolutionary War
      • Hon. George Choate (1762-1826), he was the 1st Representative from Ipswich to the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1814-1817, and then again in 1819, he was a Justice of the Peace
        • Hon. George Choate, M.D. (1796-1880), he entered Harvard in 1818, he received his medical degree from Harvard in 1822, he joined the Essex Lodge of Freemason in 1825 and was it's Most Worshipful Master 1828-1829, he was President of the Essex South District Medical Society of the Salem Athenaeum for many years, he a was Representative from Salem, Massachusetts he was master of the Foeffees' Latin School studying medicine for two years, he was Chairman of the School Committee and was an active member of the City Government in the Board of Alderman
          • Charles Francis Choate, Esq. (1828-1911), he graduated from Harvard in 1849, he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1852, he was admitted to the Bar in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854, he was a Member of the Massachusetts General Court in 1863, he was a member of the City Government of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1864-1865, he became the regular council for the Old Colony Railroad and stayed there for more than thirty years, he was elected Director of the Old Colony Railroad in 1872, he was elected and reelected President of the Old Colony Railroad in 1877 and held that position until it stopped on 1 May 1893, he retired from practicing law in 1877, he was chosen Actuary of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company on 13 Jun 1893 and held that office until 1896, he was President of the Old Colony Steamboat Company for sixteen years, he was Direct and Vice President of the New England Trust Company
          • Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck Choate (1828-1896), he went to the Boston Latin School, he graduated with honors from Harvard in 1849 and decided to specialize in mind disease, he was appointed Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Asylum for the Insane in 1854 in 1870 he founded his own asylum by building a wing to his house
          • William Gardner Choate, Esq. (1830-1920), he graduated from Harvard in 1852, he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1854, he practiced privatetly in Danvers, Massachusetts from 1855 to 1857 and then in Salem, Massachusetts until 1865 and then in New York City from 1865 to 1878, he was nominated Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Rutherford B. Hayes and succeeded Judge Samuel Blatchford, Choate was confirmed on 25 Mar 1878 and held that office until 1 Jun 1881, he resumed his practice of law after retiring until 1920, he founded the Choate School in 1896 (now Choate Rosemary Hall)

Clarke

Clarke Family

Cooper

Cooper Family

  • John Cooper (1609–1669): colonist
  • Samuel Cooper (1725-1783): clergyman - Noted Clergyman of the American Revolution -Pastor of Brattle Street Church - Co-Founder of American Academy of Arts & Sciences - Chaplain of the General Court (1758-1770 / 1777-1783)
  • Samuel D. Cooper, Jr. (1750–1824): revolutionary
  • Samuel D. Cooper III (1778–1853): trade merchant
  • Frederick Taber Cooper (1864-1937): writer, Ph.D.

Coolidge

Coolidge Family

Cooper

Cooper Family

  • John Cooper (1609–1669): colonist
  • Samuel Cooper (1725-1783): clergyman - Noted Clergyman of the American Revolution -Pastor of Brattle Street Church - Co-Founder of American Academy of Arts & Sciences - Chaplain of the General Court (1758-1770 / 1777-1783)
  • Samuel D. Cooper, Jr. (1750–1824): revolutionary
  • Samuel D. Cooper III (1778–1853): trade merchant
  • Frederick Taber Cooper (1864-1937): writer, Ph.D.

Crowninshield

Crowninshield Family

Descendants by marriage:

Cushing

Cushing Family

Originally of Hingham, Massachusetts:

  • Caleb Cushing (1800–1879): U.S. congressman and Attorney General
  • John Perkins Cushing (1787–1862): China trade merchant, investor
  • Thomas Cushing (1725–1788): statesman, revolutionary
  • William Cushing (1732–1810): U.S. Supreme Court justice
  • Harvey Cushing (1869–1939): neurosurgeon

Descendant by marriage:

  • Albert Cushing Read (1887–1967): naval officer

Dana

Dana Family

  • Richard Dana (1699–1772): colonial Boston politician
  • Francis Dana (1743–1811): revolutionary
  • Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879): lawyer, author
  • Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882): lawyer, author (Two Years Before the Mast)

Danforth

Danforth Family

  • Nicholas Danforth, Gent. was born in Feb 1589 in Haverhill, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk, England to Thomas Danforth (1560-1620) and Jane Sudbury (1563-1601) and died in 1639 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was baptized in 1589/90 in London, England. He married on 11 Feb 1618 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England to Elizabeth Symmes. She was born in 1596 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England to Thomas Symmes (-) and died on 22 Feb 1628 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England.
    • Dep. Gov. Judge Thomas Danforth, Esq. was born on 20 Nov 1623 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England and died on 5 Nov 1699 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. In 1650 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts he was Treasurer of Harvard College. In 1665 he was a member of a Committee that oversaw the extension of the Massachusetts colonial authority over the territories of what is now Southern Maine. From 1679 to 1682 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts he was Steward of Harvard College. In 1680 he was chosen President of the District of the Colony of Maine by the Massachusetts assembly. From 1689 to 1692 he was Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was Lord Proprietor of southern Maine until 1680. He was Justice of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Superior Court. He was appointed to administer the agents of Massachusetts that purchased the territory of southern Maine from Sir Ferdinando Gorges. He took part in of the events of King Phillip's War. He was the sole proprietor of 15,000 acres which eventually became Framingham, Massachusetts even though the town did not become incorporated until after his death
    • Rev. Samuel Danforth was born in Sep 1626 in Framingham, Suffolk, England and died on 19 Nov 1674 in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1643 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony he graduated from Harvard College. In 1647, 1648 and again in 1648 he published three almanacks. In 1650 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony he became one of the five founding Fellows of Harvard College. On 24 Sep 1650 he became an ordained minister and "ordained assistant to the noble "Apostle to the Indians." Also 1650 he became the pastor of the First Church of Roxbury in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He seemed to be friends and "greatly increased the power of his minister, especially the last summer. He cordially joined with me in the maintaining the pease of the church. We consulted about beautifying the house of God with ruling elders, and to order the congregation into the primitive way of Collections." Rev. Danforth was also an astronomer: On "1652, 9th, 10. There appeared a comet in the heaven in Orion, which continued it's course toward the senith for ye space of a fortnight, till Mr. Cotton's death. 1672, 12, 6th. A greateclipse of ye sun, withyc at ye eastward was total and central, inasmuch that ye starts appeared about ye Sun." He bought three tracts of land.
    • Hon. Capt. Jonathan Danforth was born in about 1627 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England and died on 7 Sep 1712 in Billerica, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts. He was the founder of Billerica, Massachusetts and was a Selectman of Billerica, Town Clerk of Billerica, Representative of Billerica, Surveyor of Billerica and Captain of the Billerica Militia

Dorsey

Dorsey Family

  • Edward Dorsey (c.1615-1659), he was the immigrant from England and died on Kent Island as a boat wright. In 1658 he converted to Quakerism and downed off of Kent Island in 1659.
  • Col. Edward Dorsey (c.1644-1705), Esq., in 1667 he was a boat wright like his father; in 1679, 1686 and in 1689 he was Justice of Anne Arundel County; in 1686 he was Captain of militia 1687 he was Major of Horse of Anne Arundel County; on 4 Sep 1689 he was Major of Anne Arundel County; on 9 Oct 1664 he was commissioned Associate Commissioner in Chancery; on 17 Oct 1694, in 1695, 1696 and 1697 he was Burges of Anne Arundel County; in 1701-1705 he was Associate Commissioner for Baltimore; on 2 Mar 1695/96 he was Judge of High. Court of Chancery; in 1702 he was commissioned Colonel; in 1694 he was on the Committee to lay out the town lots and a common for Annapolis; in 1696 he was Trustee of King William and Mary School and a Commissioner for the erection of St. Anne's Church in Annapolis. About 28 Feb 1694/95 the first session of Mary Legislature, which was in Annapolis was held at his house when he was a Major in Annapolis.
  • Hon. John Dorsey (1650-1715)
  • Edward Dorsey (1678-1701)
  • Joshua Dorsey (1686-1747),
  • Capt. Hon. John Dorsey (1699-1761); on 10 Jun 1734 he and his brother John panted 632 acres under the name of Brother's Partnership; in 1712/14 he was Justice of Baltimore County; in 1742 he was Captain of Militia

Harrison

  • Hon. Benjamin Harrison V (1726-1791), he was a Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Charles City County, Viriginia 5 May 1777-1 Dec 1781, he was Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates 7 May 1781-1 May 1781, he was the 5th Governor of the Virginia
    • Benjamin Harrison VI (1755-1799), he was a merchant, planter and politician, he was founding farther of the United States of America and a signer of the Declaration of Independence
    • William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), he was the 9th President of the United States, he held the rank of Major General during the War of 1812
      • Hon. John Scott Harrison (1804-1787), he was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives 4 Mar 1853-3 Mar 1857
        • Benjamin Harrison (1883-1901), he was the 23rd President of the United States of America, he held the rank of of Brevet Brig. Gen. in the Army of Cumberland, he was the Commander of the 70th Ind. Infantry Regiment
      • Carter Bassett Harrison (1811-1830, he was an American attorney

Healey/Dale

Healey/Dale Family

  • Mark Healey (1791–1872): originally of New Hampshire, merchant and first president of the Merchant's Bank
    • Caroline Wells Healey (1822–1912), writer, feminist, and abolitionist
    • Charles Henry Appleton Dall (1816–1886), first Unitarian minister to India
      • William Healey Dall (1845–1912), malacologist, paleontologist, and explorer of Alaska

Horsey

Horsey Family

  • Hon. Stephen Horsey (1620-1671), he was born on the Isle of Wight, England and immigrated to Northampton, Virginia and then came to Somerset County, Maryland; he was one of the main founders of Somerset County, Maryland
  • Col. Isaac Horsey (1665-1752)

Delano

Delano Family

  • Columbus Delano (1809–1896), statesman
  • Diane Delano, (born 1957), actress
  • Francis R. Delano, (1842–1892), banker, railroad executive
  • Frederic Adrian Delano II, (1863–1953), civil engineer, member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, brother of Sara
  • Warren Delano, Jr., (1809-1898), grandfather of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chief of Operations of Russell & Company, whose business included the opium trade in Canton.
  • Jane Arminda Delano, (1862–1919) nurse
  • Warren Delano Robbins (September 3, 1885 – April 7, 1935) was an American diplomat and first cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • Paul Delano, (1775–1842), Commander of the Chilean Department of the Navy
  • Sara Ann Delano (1854–1941), mother of FDR
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (1882–1945), President of the United States
  • William Adams Delano (1874–1960), architect
  • Mary Gray-Reeves (daughter of Florence Delano Gray) (born 1962), First woman to be an Episcopalian bishop in California
  • James Whitlow Delano (born 1960), photographer
  • David Delano Clark (1924-1997), nuclear physicist, grandfather of greatness

Derby

Derby Family

  • Hon. Capt. Richard Derby, Jr. (1712-1783), he was a "merchant prince" and sea captain, he had one of the largest fleets in Salem, Massachusetts
    • Capt. Richard Derby III (1736-1781), he was a sea captain
    • Elias Hasket "King" Derby (1739-1799)

Dorsey

Dorsey Family

  • Edward Dorsey (c.1615-1659), he was the immigrant from England and died on Kent Island as a boat wright. In 1658 he converted to Quakerism and downed off of Kent Island in 1659.
  • Col. Edward Dorsey (c.1644-1705), Esq., in 1667 he was a boat wright like his father; in 1679, 1686 and in 1689 he was Justice of Anne Arundel County; in 1686 he was Captain of militia 1687 he was Major of Horse of Anne Arundel County; on 4 Sep 1689 he was Major of Anne Arundel County; on 9 Oct 1664 he was commissioned Associate Commissioner in Chancery; on 17 Oct 1694, in 1695, 1696 and 1697 he was Burges of Anne Arundel County; in 1701-1705 he was Associate Commissioner for Baltimore; on 2 Mar 1695/96 he was Judge of High. Court of Chancery; in 1702 he was commissioned Colonel; in 1694 he was on the Committee to lay out the town lots and a common for Annapolis; in 1696 he was Trustee of King William and Mary School and a Commissioner for the erection of St. Anne's Church in Annapolis. About 28 Feb 1694/95 the first session of Mary Legislature, which was in Annapolis was held at his house when he was a Major in Annapolis.
  • Hon. John Dorsey (1650-1715)
  • Edward Dorsey (1678-1701)
  • Joshua Dorsey (1686-1747),
  • Capt. Hon. John Dorsey (1699-1761); on 10 Jun 1734 he and his brother John panted 632 acres under the name of Brother's Partnership; in 1712/14 he was Justice of Baltimore County; in 1742 he was Captain of Militia

McDougald

McDougald Family

Dwight

Dwight Family

  • Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817): president of Yale University
  • Joseph Dwight (1703–1765): lawyer, French and Indian War veteran
  • James Dwight Dana (1813–1895): geologist

Eliot

Eliot Family

  • Charles William Eliot (1834–1926): president of Harvard University
    • Charles Eliot (1859–1897): landscape architect
    • Samuel A. Eliot II (1862–1950): president of the American Unitarian Association
  • William Greenleaf Eliot (1811–1887): educator, Unitarian minister, and civic leader
    • Henry Ware Eliot (1843–1919) industrialist and philanthropist, co-founder of Washington University
  • Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976): maritime author
  • Theodore Lyman Eliot (1928-...), diplomat

Descendant by marriage:

  • Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908): author

Emerson

Emerson Family

Endicott

Endicott Family

Salem:

Dedham:

  • Augustus Bradford Endicott (1818-1900), politician
    • Philip Endicott Young (1885-1955), industrialist
  • Henry Bradford Endicott (1853-1920), industrialists
    • Henry Wendell Endicott (1880-1954)

Everett

Everett Family

Fabens

Fabens Family

Of Marblehead and Salem:

  • William Fabens (1810–1883): lawyer, member of Assembly, Senate
    • William Chandler Fabens (1843–1903): Lynn attorney, namesake of Fabens Building
  • Samuel Augustus Fabens (1813–1899): master mariner in the East India and California trade
  • Francis Alfred Fabens (1814–1872): mercantile businessman, San Francisco judge, attorney
  • Joseph Warren Fabens (1821–1875): U.S. Consul at Cayenne, businessman, Envoy Extraordinary of the Dominican Republic
  • George Wilson Fabens (1857–1939): attorney, land commissioner and superintendent of Southern Pacific Railroad, namesake of Fabens, Texas

Fisher

Fisher Family

Franklin

Frankline Family

Forbes

Forbes Family

  • John Murray Forbes (1813–1898): industrialist
  • John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943): United States Secretary of State, senator from Massachusetts (1985–2013)
  • Elliot Forbes (1917–2006): conductor and musicologist
  • Robert Bennet Forbes (1804–1889): sea captain, China merchant, ship owner, writer

Gardner

Gardner Family

Originally of Essex county:

Gardiner

Gardiner Family

  • Capt. Lion Gardiner (1599-1663), immigrant from England, 1st Lord of the Manor of Gardiner's Island
    • David Garidner (1636-1689), 2nd Lord of the Manor of Gardiner's Island
      • John Lyon Gardiner (1661-1738), 3rd Lord of the Manor of Gardiner's Island
        • His Excellency David Gardiner (1691-1751), 4th Lord of the Manor of Gardiner's Island
        • Capt. Samuel Gardiner (c.1695-1729)
        • Capt. Joseph Gardiner (1697-1752), he was a ship captain
        • Dr. Jonathan Gardiner (1711-1735) he died at sea and was a Medical Doctor

Gillett

Gillett Family

  • Jonathan Gillett (1609–1677): colonist
  • Edward Bates Gillett (1817–1899): Attorney
    • Frederick Huntington Gillett (1851–1935): 37th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
    • Arthur Lincoln Gillett (1859–1938): clergyman

Hallowell

Hallowell Family

Hamilton

Hamilton Family

Hathorne/Hawthorne

Hathorne/Hawthorne Family

Holmes

Holmes Family

Humphrey

Humphrey Family

Jackson

Jackson Family

Kitchen

Kitchen Family

Knowles

Knowles Family

Lanier

Lanier Family

Lawrence

Lawrence Family

Descendant by marriage: Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943): president of Harvard University

Lee

Lee Family

Lodge

Lodge Family

Lothrop

Lothrop Family

Lowell

Main article: Lowell family

Ludwell

Ludwell Family

Lloyd

Lloyd Family

  • Sir John Lloyd, 1st Bt (c.1625-c.1712), he was knighted by Charles II of England and Lord of the Manor of Bristol in England
    • James Lloyd (c.1653-1693), immigrated in 1670 to the American Colonies, 1st Lord of the Manor of Queens Village, New York, proprietor of Queens Village which was 3,000 acres
      • Henry Lloyd (1685-1763), 2nd Lord of the Manor of Queens Village, he was a very successful merchant, he founded a very successful story: Heny's Store and an apple cider company, he also owned the sloop Wentworth

Lyman

Lyman Family

  • Richard Lyman (1580–1640): a founder of Hartford, Connecticut; cousin of Lord Mayor of London Sir John Lyman of the Lyman Baronets of England
  • Roswell Lyman: China trade merchant, had an interest in The Ann & Hope
  • Theodore Lyman (1753–1839): China trade merchant, commissioned Samuel McIntire to build one of New England's finest country houses, The Vale
  • Theodore Lyman II (1792–1849): brigadier general of militia, Massachusetts state representative, mayor of Boston
  • Theodore Lyman III (1833–1897): natural scientist, aide-de-camp to Major General Meade during the American Civil War, and United States congressman from Massachusetts
  • Theodore Lyman IV (1874–1954): director of Jefferson Physics Lab, Harvard; eponym of the Lyman series of spectral lines. The crater Lyman on the far side of the Moon is named after him, as is the Lyman Physics Building at Harvard.
  • George Williams Lyman (1786–1880): developed textile mills, director of the Boston and Lowell Railroad and the Columbian Bank, president of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company. His first wife was Elizabeth Gray Otis, the daughter of Harrison Gray Otis (U.S. senator and mayor of Boston) and Sally Foster Otis, prominent Bostonians who built a noted Federal-style mansion still standing.

Mayhew

Mayhew Family

Minot

Minot Family

Morton

Norcross

Norcross Family

Original from Watertown, Massachusetts

  • Otis Norcross (1811–1882): mayor of Boston
  • Eleanor Norcross (1854–1923): artist

Oakes

Otis

Otis Family

Page

Paine

Palfrey

Parkman

Parkman Family

Peabody

Peabody Family

  • Catherine Endicott Peabody (1808–1833)
  • Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804–1894): American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States
  • Endicott Peabody (1857–1944): Episcopal priest and founder of the Groton School for Boys
  • Endicott "Chubb" Peabody (1920–1997): governor of Massachusetts
  • George Peabody (1795–1869): entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the House of Morgan and the Peabody Institute
  • Joseph Peabody (1757–1844): merchant, shipowner, and philanthropist whose company sailed clipper ships in the Old China Trade from its base in Salem, Massachusetts
  • Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (1806–1887): American author
  • Nathaniel Peabody (1774–1855)
  • Richard R. Peabody (1892–1936): author of The Common Sense of Drinking, a major influence on Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson
  • Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne (1809–1871): painter, illustrator, and wife of American author Nathaniel Hawthorne

Perkins

Perkins Family

  • James Perkins (1761–1822): founder of the Boston Athenaeum, pioneer of the China trade, merchant, philanthropist
  • Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764–1854): merchant, philanthropist
  • Charles Perkins (1823–1886): art historian, philanthropist, founder of the Museum of Fine Arts
  • Edward Perkins (1856–1905): constitutional lawyer
  • Maxwell Perkins (1884–1947): literary editor of Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald

Phillips

Philips Family of Massachusetts

  • Christopher H. Phillips (1920–2008): politician and diplomat
  • Samuel Phillips, Jr. (1752–1802): politician, founder of Phillips Academy
  • John Phillips (1719–1795): educator, founder of Phillips Exeter Academy
  • John Sanborn Phillips (1861-1949): publisher of McClure's Magazine
  • Wendell Phillips (1811–1884): abolitionist
  • William Phillips (1920–2008): diplomat

Pickering

Pickering Family

  • Timothy Pickering, 3rd United States Secretary of State, 2nd United States Secretary of War, 5th United States Postmaster General, American Revolutionary War colonel, Adjutant General of the American Revolutionary  Continental Army

Putnam

Putnam Family

Quincy

Quincy Family

Randolf

Rice

Rice Family

Originally of Sudbury, Massachusetts:

  • Deacon Edmund Rice (1594–1663): colonist
  • Alexander Hamilton Rice (1818–1895): industrialist, mayor of Boston, governor of Massachusetts, U.S. congressman
    • Alexander Hamilton Rice, Jr. (1875–1956): physician, geographer and explorer
  • Americus Vespucius Rice (1835–1904): general, U.S. congressman
  • Edmund Rice (1842–1906): U.S. Army general, Medal of Honor recipient
  • Edmund Rice (1819–1889): U.S. congressman
  • Henry Mower Rice (1816–1894): U.S. senator
  • Luther Rice (1783–1836): Baptist clergyman, missionary to India
  • Thomas Rice (1768–1854): U.S. congressman
  • William Marsh Rice (1816–1900): businessman, founder of Rice University
  • William North Rice (1845–1928): geologist, educator
  • William Whitney Rice (1826–1896): U.S. congressman
  • William B. Rice (1840–1909): industrialist, philanthropist

Rogers

Saltonstall

Saltonstall Family

  • Leverett Saltonstall I (1783–1845): politician, educator
  • Leverett Saltonstall (1892–1979): U.S. senator
    • William L. Saltonstall (1927–2009): politician
  • Philip Saltonstall Weld (1915–1984): World War II commando, environmentalist

Sargent

  • Colonel Epes Sargent (1690–1762): colonel of militia before the Revolution and a justice of the general session court for more than 30 years
    • Paul Dudley Sargent (1745–1828): Revolutionary officer, one of the founding overseers of Bowdoin College
      • Harrison Tweed (1885–1969): lawyer and civic leader
    • John Sargent (1750–1824): Loyalist officer during the American Revolution
      • Winthrop Sargent (1753–1820): patriot, governor, politician, and writer; member of the Federalist Party
      • Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820): feminist, essayist, playwright, and poet; her home is the Sargent House Museum
    • Daniel Sargent, Sr. (1730–1806): merchant, owned Sargent's Wharf in Boston
      • Daniel Sargent (1764–1842): merchant, politician
        • Daniel Sargent Curtis (1825–1908): lawyer, banker, trustee of the BPL, owner of Palazzo Barbaro
      • Henry Sargent (1770–1845): painter and military man
      • Henry Winthrop Sargent (1810–1882): horticulturist and landscape gardener
      • Lucius Manlius Sargent (1786–1867): author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate
      • John Singer Sargent (1856–1925): artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation"
      • Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927): botanist, first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum
      • Winthrop Sargent Gilman (1808–1884): head of the banking house of Gilman, Son & Co. in New York City
      • Epes Sargent (1813–1880): editor, poet and playwright
      • Francis W. Sargent (1915–1998): 64th governor of Massachusetts
      • Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850): poet, one of the most popular women writers during her time

Sears

Sears Family

  • Richard Sears (1610–1676): colonist
  • David Sears II (1787–1871): philanthropist, merchant, landowner
  • Clara Endicott Sears (1863–1960): author, philanthropist
  • Mason Sears (1899–1973): politician and ambassador
  • Emily Sears: wife of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
  • John W. Sears (1930–2014): politician

Sedgwick

Schuyler

Sherburne

Tarbox

Tarbox Family

  • John Tarbox (1645–1674): colonist
  • John K. Tarbox (1838–1887): U.S. congressman
  • Increase N. Tarbox (1815–1888): author

Thayer

Thorndike

Thorndike Family

  • Israel Thorndike (1755–1832): merchant, politician
  • Augustus Thorndike (1896–1986): physician
  • George Thorndike Angell (1823–1909): lawyer, philanthropist

Tudor

Tudor Family

  • William Tudor (1750–1819): lawyer, politician, founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society
  • William Tudor (1779–1830): cofounder of the North American Review and the Boston Athenaeum
  • Frederic Tudor (1783–1864): Boston's "Ice King", founder of the Tudor Ice Company
  • Tasha Tudor (1915–2008): illustrator and author of children's books

Turner

Vanderbilt

Warren

Warren Family

  • Richard Warren (1578–1628): London merchant, Mayflower passenger
  • James Warren (1726–1808): Army general, paymaster of American Army, president of Massachusetts Congress
  • Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814): playwright, historian, pioneer feminist, revolutionary
  • Joseph Warren (1741–1775): major-general, hero/martyr of Bunker Hill, president of Massachusetts Congress, sent Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride
  • John Warren (1753–1815): founder of Harvard Medical School, surgeon at Bunker Hill, co-founder of the Massachusetts Medical Society
  • John Collins Warren (1778–1856): surgeon, gave first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, a founder of The New England Journal of Medicine, president of the American Medical Association, founding dean of Harvard Medical School, and a founder of Massachusetts General Hospital
  • John Collins Warren, Jr. (1842–1947): surgeon and president of the American Surgical Association

Washington

Washington Family

Weld

Weld Family

  • Thomas Weld (born c. 1600): colonist, Puritan minister
  • William Gordon Weld (1775–1825): merchant
  • William Fletcher Weld (1800–1881): merchant, philanthropist
  • Ezra Greenleaf Weld (1801–1874): daguerreotypist
  • Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895): abolitionist
  • Stephen Minot Weld (1806–1867): politician, educator
  • George Walker Weld (1840–1905): philanthropist
  • Stephen Minot Weld, Jr. (1842–1920): Civil War general
  • Charles Goddard Weld (1857–1911): philanthropist
  • Isabel Weld Perkins (1877–1948): philanthropist
  • Philip Saltonstall Weld (1915–1984): World War II commando, environmentalist
  • Tuesday Weld (b. 1943): actress
  • William Weld (b. 1945): governor of Massachusetts

Wentworth

Wentworth Family

Wigglesworth

Wigglesworth Family

  • Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705): colonist, clergyman
    • Edward Wigglesworth (1693–1765): clergyman, educator
  • Richard B. Wigglesworth (1891–1960): U.S. congressman

Witney

Witney Family

Winthrop

Winthrop Family

  • John Winthrop (1588–1649): governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • Lucy Winthrop Downing, mother of diplomat Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, founder of New York, of Downing Street, London, and ultimately of Downing College, Cambridge UK. Lucy's letter to her brother Governor Winthrop provided the impetus for the founding of Harvard College.
  • John Winthrop: married Anne Dudley, granddaughter of Thomas Dudley
    • John Winthrop (1714–1779): acting president of Harvard, pioneer of American science
  • Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760–1841): lieutenant governor of Massachusetts
  • Robert Charles Winthrop (1809–1894): lawyer, politician, philanthropist
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