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Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1] and their funerary traditions and grave art provide a unique insight into their views on death. The minimalist decoration and lack of embellishment of the early headstone designs reflect the British ...
Captain Edward Johnson (1598–1672) was a leading figure in colonial Massachusetts, and is one of the founders of Woburn, Massachusetts. [1] 19th-century painting by Albert Thompson, on display at the Woburn Public Library, depicting Thomas Carter's ordination as minister of Woburn, Massachusetts on November 22, 1642. Capt.
The Archives operates the Commonwealth Museum to educate and display some of its collections of important documents about state and national history. [5] The main permanent exhibit is entitled "The Massachusetts Experiment in Democracy: 1620–Today", and traces the Massachusetts experience through the Colonial, Revolutionary, Federal, and 19th century reform periods.
William Avery Baker (born in New Britain, Connecticut on 21 October 1911 – died 9 September 1981) was a distinguished naval architect of replica historic ships and a maritime historian, who was curator of the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1963–1981.
The Boston martyrs is the name given in Quaker tradition [1] to the three English members of the Society of Friends, Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson and Mary Dyer, and to the Barbadian Friend William Leddra, who were condemned to death and executed by public hanging for their religious beliefs under the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659, 1660 and 1661.
Charles Hammond Gibson Jr (1874–1954), philanthropist and art collector; Albert Gilman (d. 1989), Shakespeare scholar and professor of English at Boston University, buried together with his partner Roger Brown; Archibald R. Giroux (1897–1968), president of the Boston Stock Exchange and chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party
William Phelps, (c. 1593 —July 14, 1672) was a Puritan who emigrated from Crewkerne, England in 1630, one of the founders of both Dorchester, Boston Massachusetts and Windsor, Connecticut, and one of eight selected to lead the first democratic town government in the American colonies in 1637.
Jonathan Belcher – colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician (Governor of Massachusetts Bay) [4] [5] [6] Rev. William Brattle – cleric, father of William Brattle [2] [5] Elijah Corlet – educator, schoolmaster of the Cambridge Grammar School [5] Samuel McChord Crothers – minister with The First Parish in Cambridge [2]