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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 16 subcategories, out of 16 total.
Pages in category "People from colonial Massachusetts"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 572 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin
- Abiel Abbot
- Benjamin Abbot
- Robert Abell
- Samuel Adams Sr.
- Abigail Adams
- Benjamin Adams (politician)
- Hannah Adams
- Henry Adams (farmer)
- Jeremy Adams
- Thomas Boylston Adams (judge)
- Zabdiel Adams
- Jonathan Alden Sr.
- Priscilla Alden
- Timothy Alden
- Ebenezer Allen (Vermont politician)
- John Allen (Connecticut politician)
- Joseph Allen (congressman)
- Thomas Allen (nonconformist)
- Isaac Allerton Jr.
- Mary Allerton
- Ezra Ames
- Fisher Ames
- Roger Amidon
- Samuel Andrew
- Nathaniel Appleton
- Samuel Appleton (born 1625)
- Rebecca Kellogg Ashley
- Philip Ashton
- William Aspinwall
- Assacumet
- Hope Atherton
- Humphrey Atherton
- James Atherton (settler)
- John Atwood (colonial administrator)
- Richard Austin (colonist)
- John Avery Jr.
- John Ayer
B
- Isaac Backus
- Joseph Badger
- Daniel Balch
- Loammi Baldwin
- Martha Ballard
- Aaron Bancroft
- Edward Bancroft
- John Barnard (clergyman)
- James Barrett (colonel)
- Bailey Bartlett
- Josiah Bartlett
- William Bassett (d. 1667)
- Ebenezer Battelle
- Jacob Bayley
- Jonathan Belcher (jurist)
- Jeremy Belknap
- William Bentley
- Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
- George Berry (captain)
- Adonijah Bidwell
- Abijah Bigelow
- William Billings
- Israel Bissell
- Black James
- William Blaxton
- Sampson Salter Blowers
- William Bond (Massachusetts politician)
- Richard Bonython
- Matthew Boon
- Shearjashub Bourne
- Ashley Bowen
- Bathsheba Bowers
- Joseph Bowker
- Nathaniel Bowman
- Thaddeus Bowman
- Susanna Boylston
- Thomas Boylston
- Ward Nicholas Boylston
- Zabdiel Boylston
- George Bradbury (American politician)
- Theophilus Bradbury
- William Bradford (Plymouth soldier)
- Joseph Bradish
- Anne Bradstreet
- Fear Brewster
- Jonathan Brewster (colonist)
- Mary Brewster
- Samuel W. Bridgham
- Elijah Brigham
- Edward Brooks (minister)
- John Brooks (governor)
- Nicholson Broughton
- Benjamin Brown (politician)
- Jonathan Buck (Bucksport)
- Dixie Bull
- Eber Bunker
- Esther Edwards Burr
- John Bushell
- Ezra Butler
- Zebulon Butler
- Mary Butterworth
- John Buttrick
- Nathaniel Byfield
C
- George Cabot
- John Caleff
- John Campbell (editor)
- Peter Carleton
- Rehoboth Carpenter family
- Jonathan Carver
- William Chamberlain (politician)
- Rebekah Chamblit
- Jeremiah Chaplin
- Jonathan Chase (colonel)
- Ezekiel Cheever
- Cesar Chelor
- Wenlock Christison
- George Claghorn
- Thomas Clap
- Roger Clapp
- Daniel Clark (Connecticut colonial leader)
- Thaddeus Clark
- George Cleeve
- Aaron Cleveland
- David Cobb (Massachusetts politician)
- John Coburn (silversmith)
- Mark Codman
- Peleg Coffin Jr.
- John Cogswell
- Samuel Cole (settler)
- Robert Coles (settler)
- William Collier (colonist)
- Roger Conant (colonist)
- Coneconam
- William Conkey
- Edward Convers
- James Converse
- George Cooke (Massachusetts politician)
- John Singleton Copley
- Corbitant
- John Cotton (minister)
- John Cousins
- Andrew Craigie
- John Crane (soldier)
- William Crowne
- Benjamin Williams Crowninshield
- Jacob Crowninshield
- James Cudworth (colonist)
- Ephraim Curtis
- Robert Cushman
- Timothy Cutler
- Ammi Ruhamah Cutter (minister)
- Ammi Ruhamah Cutter (physician)
D
- David Daggett
- Dana family
- Daniel Dana
- James Dana (clergyman)
- Richard Dana (lawyer)
- Daniel Takawambait
- Caleb Davis
- Isaac Davis (soldier)
- James Davis (mariner)
- John Davis (U.S. district court judge)
- Thomas Dawes
- William Dawes
- Stephen Daye
- Josiah Dean
- Prince Demah
- Daniel Denison (colonist)
- Timothy Dexter
- Jonathan Dickinson (New Jersey minister)
- Nathaniel Dickinson (pioneer)
- Dorcas ye blackmore
- William Douglass (physician)
- Margaret Green Draper
- Thomas Drury (1668)
- Paul Dudley (jurist)
- Jeremiah Dummer
- Jeremiah Dummer (silversmith)
- Shubael Dummer
- David Dunbar (colonel)
- Jesse Dunbar
- Jonathan Singletary Dunham
- Henry Dunster
- Hannah Duston
- Joseph Dwight
- Timothy Dwight IV