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John Humphrey (also spelled Humfrey or Humfry, c. 1597 – 1661) was an English Puritan and an early funder of the English colonisation of North America.He was the treasurer of the Dorchester Company, which established an unsuccessful settlement on Massachusetts Bay in the 1620s, and was deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company from 1629 to 1630.
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The John Humphreys House, also known as Sir John Humphreys House, is a historic house museum located in Swampscott, Massachusetts.Although it was long thought to be associated with John Humphrey, an early deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was more likely built about 1700, based on architectural analysis.
Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1633-1700. Waters (1905). Ipswich, MA: The Ipswich Historical Society. [p. 120-127]. [Accessed in Local History Room, Watertown Free Public Library, Watertown, MA]. History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. 1637-1888. Oliver Ayer Roberts. Boston. 1897. Volume 1. [pp. 191 ...
"The Massachusetts Archives used to be located at the State House. But after the state’s oldest document — the 1629 Charter of Massachusetts Bay — was stolen in 1984, the decision was made to build a new archives near the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum at Columbia Point in Dorchester." [10] (The 1629 charter was later recovered).
Herbert Parker (Massachusetts politician), Republican politician, Massachusetts Attorney General from 1902–1906; John Prescott, pioneer, founder of Lancaster; Mary Rowlandson, colonial Indian captive and author of one of America's first best selling books
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.