Notable People

A
Henry Adams (1583 - 1646), ancestor to President John Adams (1735 - 1826), early settler of Braintree, Massachusetts, farmer

Hope Allen (1625 - c.1677), proprietor of 400 acres

Capt. Philip L'Anglais (1651 - 1736), the wealthiest merchant of Salem with the biggest house in Salem, Massachusetts and accused for witch in 1692, he was also the owner of 27 vessles

Sheriff Samuel Archer (c.1608 - 1667), Sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts, Constable of Salem, Massachusetts, Selectmen of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, served on the Essex County Petit Jury, Salem Surveyor of Fences in Millfield

Charles Apthorp (1698 - 1758), Commissary and Paymaster of the Royal British Forces during the American Revolutionary War

Hon. Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton (1608 - 1661), 12th Speaker of the Massachusetts Bay Colony House of Deputies, Major General of the Armies of New England

B
Gabriel Baubeau (1651 - 1737), proprietor of 350 acres

John Baker (1598 - 1680), proprietor and farmer of 150 ares, sold liquor and beer, inn holder

Capt. Thomas Baker (1636 - 1718), iron worker, proprietor

Hon. Thomas Boardman (1601 - 1673), Deputy and Representative to the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Maj. William Boardman (1614 - 1672), Cook and 4th Steward of Harvard

William Bozman II (1625 - 1665), proprietor of 1,200 acres, farmer, planter and government official in Maryland

Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921 - 2014), Executive Editor, and Vice President of the Washington Post

Samuel Bradlee (1707 - 1768), Constable of Dorchester

Rev. Peter Bulkeley (1582 - 1659), Founder of and first minister of Concord, Massachusetts

Hon. Lt. Thomas Burnham (1623 - 1694), Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts

Rev. George Burroughs (c.1650 - 1692), Salem Witch Trials Victim, minister of Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)

C
Rev. Thomas Carter (c.1588 - 1652), first minister of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Henry Carsley (1602 - bef.1635), in 1623 he arrived in Jamestown, Virginia

Capt. Isaac Chaplaine (1584 - 1628), in 1610 he arrived in Jamestown, Virginia

Col. Judge John Chandler III, Esq. (1665 - 1743), a Commissioner of Peace for almost 40 years, and for seven years he was of His Majesty's Council

George Choate (1762 - 1826)

[http://quinnbradleesancestors.wikia.com/wiki/Stephen_Choate_(1727_-_1815)?action=edit&section=1 Hon. Dea. Stephen Choate (1727 - 1815)], Representative and Treasurer of Ipswich, Massachusetts

John Clarke (1575 - 1623), First Mate and Pilot of the Mayflower

Hon. Thomas Clarke (1599 - 1697), Representative of Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Rev. Robert Clements (1595 - 1658), Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts,  Commissioner of Essex County, Massachusetts,  Commissioner to End Small Causes, Associate Judge, given the right to sell wine

James Cole (1600 - 1692), Constable, Highway Surveyor, Inn Keeper, Liscensed to sell liquor, fought in King Phillip's War, a first settler of Cole's Hill

Francis Boardman Crowninshield (1809 - 1877), 7th Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Capt. George Crowninshie (1734 - 1815), Founder of George Crowninshield & Sons

Capt. George Crowninshield, Jr. (1766 - 1817), Designer and Financier of Cleopatra's Barge, the first yacht built in America

Hon. Capt. Jacob Crowninshield (1770 - 1808), Member of the Massachusetts Senate, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts 2nd district; he also brought the first elephant to America.

D
Hon. Nicholas Danforth (1589 - 1638), Deputy to the Massachusetts Bay General Court, Innkeeper, on two committees

Capt. Richard Derby (1712 - 1783), merchant prince

Hon. John Alexander McDougald (1864 - 1926), Mayor of Statesboro, Georgia

John Dwight (1601 - 1660), Co Founder of the First Church of Dedham, Massachusetts

F
Capt. George Fairbanks (1619 - 1681), Selectmen and first settler of Medway, Massachusetts, captain in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

Hon. Capt. Hopestill Foster (1620 - 1676),  Treasurer of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he was a Representative to the Great and General Court of Massachusetts, North America, Commissioner for small causes for which office he died, Selectmen of Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, North America

Capt. William French (1603 - 1681), Co Founder, proprietor and 1st Representative of Billerica, Massachusetts

G
Richard Gale (1616 - 1678), Constable and proprietor of 250 acres in Watertown, Massachusetts

Capt. Lion Gardiner (1499 - 1663), 1st Lord of the Manor of Gardiner's Island, Founder of, East Hampton, New York, Founder of New York State,  Commander of Saybrook Fort, Connecticut, military captain, engineer in the service of the Prince of Orange

Dr. Ernst Bruno von Gersdorff (1820 - 1883), Doctor of Medicine in Boston, physician

Hon. John Greene (1597 - 1658), surgeon, deputy, co founder of Warwick, Rhode Island

Hon. Thomas Greene (1628 - 1717), Commissioner, Deputy of Warwick, Rhode Island

H
John Hall (1627 - 1701), Constable in Massachusetts

Hon. Col. Gov. John Haynes (1594 - 1654), Lord of the Manor of Gourney in England, 5th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1st Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, Deputy Governor to the Colony of Connecticut, Assistant to the Court of Connecticut, Magistrate of the courts of Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Medford, and Concord, Massachusetts, North America, Magistrate to the Connecticut Particular Court Colonel of the Regiment of Charlestown, Massachusetts, Selectmen

Hon. Maj. Judge William Hathorne (1606 - 1681), Assistant Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1st Speaker of the Court of Salem, Major of the Salem Military Company, let troops to victory during King Philip's War, proprietor of 640 acres in Salem, Massachusetts

Gov. Thomas Hinckley (1618 - 1706), 14th and last Governor of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, Representative, Magistrate and Assistant, Deputy Governor, Commissioner on the board of Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies, Councilor

Capt. Gamaliel Hodges (1685 - 1765), sea captain

Capt. John Hodges (1723 - 1799) "of Revolutionary fame," sea captain

Hans Michael Holt (1696 -1676), arrived in 1717, part of the Second Germanna Colony and proprietor of 400 acres

Col. Henry Hooper (c.1620-1676), one of the first settler on what is now know as Hooper's Island, Maryland

Col. Isaac Horsey (1665 - 1752), Justice of the Peace, an early settler of Somerset County, Maryland, from Virginia

Daniel Hubbard (1706 - 1741), Sheriff of Massachusetts

Rev. William Hubbard (1621 - 1704), minister, pastor of the Congregations Church of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and author of The History of New England, author of A Narrative of Trobles with the Indians

K
John Kenrick (1604 - 1686), before he immigrated to North America he was Sheriff of London, England

Richard Kirkland (c.1670 - 1743), proprietor of 700 acres, inn keeper in Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Dr. Johann Casper Richter von Kronenscheldt (1661 - 1711), doctor in Boston, Massachusetts, helped a girl that was inflicted by witch hysteria during the Salem Witch Trials

L
Edward Larkin (1615 - 1653), he was a wheel maker by trade, member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company

Maj. Gen. Gov. Sir John Leverett (1616 - 1679), 10th Governor of Acadia, 19th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Militia, Massachusetts Agent for England, Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts, on a Committee to draft a petition to the king demanding the commission's recall

Elder Thomas Leverett (1591 - 1650), ruling elder of England, selectmen, on the Committee to review causes. On 30 Nov 1635 he was on the Committee to oversee allotments

Rev. John Lothrop (1594 - 1653), minister, a first settler of Barnstable, Massachusetts

Maj. Ambrose London (c.1618 - bef.1706), Justice of the Peace in Somerset County, Maryland, planter

M
Rev. John Maverick (1578 - 1636), he graduated from Oxford University and was the first minister of the First Parish Church of Dorchester, Massachusetts

[http://quinnbradleesancestors.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Marrett_(1589_-_1664)?action=edit&section=1 Hon. Dea. Thomas Marrett (1589 - 1664)], on 26 Oct 1638 he was Surveyor of Lands in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. On 15 Jul 1639 he was on the committee to divide a fence Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. On 1 Oct 1639, 10 Nov 1640, 8 Nov 1641, 11 Nov 1644, 9 Nov 1646, 8 Nov 1647 he was Selectman of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. On 13 May 1640 he was a Representative to the Massachusetts Bay committee to value livestock.

Robert Mansfields (1594 - 1666), Constable of Salem, Massachusetts

Hon. Thomas Mayhew (1593 - 1682), Self Proclaimed Governor of Martha's Vineyard, Patriarch to the Indians, Selectmen of Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Michael Metcalf (1620 - 1654), an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts

William Monroe (1624 - 1718), immigrant, Scottish soldier, selectmen

Hon. Lt. Ephraim Morton (1623 - 1693), Representative, Justice of the Peace and Selectmen of Plymouth, Massachusetts

Hon. Maj. Perez Morton (1752 - 1837), Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representative, 7th Massachusetts Attorney General

N
Edmund Needham (1606 - 1677), juryman in 1649, 1655 and 1676 in Salem, Massachusetts

Hon. John Newgate (1588 - 1665),  Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts, Constable, on a committee to receive funds for Harvard, Hatter, Feltmaker, Haberdasher

Richard Newtown (1605 - c.1640), proprietor of about 130 acres

Rev. James Noyes (1608 - 1656), Co Founder of Newbury, Massachusetts

P
Hon. William Patten (1605 - 1668), Deputy from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Massachusetts Bay General Court, Fence Viewer, Highway Surveyor, proprietor of a 500 acre farm

Hon. Capt. John Peabody (1590 - 1667), Deputy from Boxford, Massachusetts

Hon. John Perkins (1583 - 1654), Deputy to the Massachusetts Bay General Court

Sgt. John Perkins, Jr. (1609 - 1686), opened the first publishing house in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Hon. John Phillips (1605 - 1682), Constable of Dorchester, Massachusetts, Deputy to the Massachusetts General Court from Hingham

Col. Robert Pitt (1606 - c.1672), Colonel and Commander of Virginia's Militia

Hon. Sgt. John Porter (1596 - 1676), Constable of Hingham, Massachusetts

[http://quinnbradleesancestors.wikia.com/wiki/Luke_Potter_(1608_-_1697) Dea. Luke Potter (1608 - 1697)], a first settler of Concord, Massachusetts

Walter Powell (1622 - 1696), Constable of Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland

John Prescott (1605 - 1681), Founder of Lancaster, Massachusetts

[http://quinnbradleesancestors.wikia.com/wiki/Benjamin_Putnam_(1664_-_1715)?action=edit&section=3 Dea. Capt. Benjamin Putnam (1664 - 1715)], Constable and Collector Danvers, Massachusetts, Tithingman, Selectman of Danvers, Massachusetts, he was the first Deacon of the First Church of Danvers, Massachusetts

Lt. Thomas Putnam (1615 - 1686), inspector of Bridges of Salem Village, Essex County, Massachusetts, Surveyor of Highways of Salem Village, Essex County, 1st Parish Clerk of of Salem Village, Essex County, Selectman of Salem Village, Essex County, Grand Juryman of Salem Village, Essex County, constable of Salem Village, Essex County, Lieutenant in the Troop of Horses

Q
Sally Sterling Quinn (b. 1941), first anchor woman in America, best selling author

Chevalier Lt. Gen. William Wilson "Buffalo Bill" Quinn (1907 - 2001), Director of the Strategic Services Unit, in order he was the Commanding Officer of the 34th Infantry Regiment, then the 17th Infantry Regiment, then the United States Army Europe and finally the United States 7th Army; he was the Vice President of the Aerospace Group program at Martin Mrietta Corporation until 1972; he then established Quinn Associates, a consulting firm.

R
[http://quinnbradleesancestors.wikia.com/wiki/Edmund_Rice_(c.1594_-_1663) Hon. Dea. Edmund Rice (c.1594 - 1663)], In 1638 he was a co-founder of Sudbury, Massachusetts

Teague Riggin (c.1640 - 1707), Maryland proprietor of 1,000 acres, came over as an Irish slave

John Roach (1653 - 1718), proprietor of 757 acres and five houses in Somerset County, Maryland

Rev. Nathaniel Rogers (1598 - 1655), rector of Assington, Suffolk, England, pastor of Ipswich, Massachusetts

Hon. Richard Russell (1611 - 1676) Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Deputies, Treasurer of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Assistant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Representative of Charlestown to the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, proprietor and purchaser of what is now known as Medford, Massachusetts, Town Selectmen, had a coat of arms

S
Hon. Col. Eppes Sargent (1690 - 1762), Colonel of a militia in Massachusetts, Magistrate of Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, Selectmen in Massachusetts

Dr. Howard Sargent, M.D. (1810 - 1872), Medical Doctor in Boston, Massachusetts

Hon. Thomas Scruggs (1588 - 1654), Deputy to the Great and General Court of Massachusetts

Hon. Judge Henry Shurburne (1611 - 1680), Judge of Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Rev. Nehemia Smith (1605 - 1686), an original proprietor of Norwich, Connecticut

Isaac Stearns (1597 - 1671), proprietor of 451 acres, owner of 20,00 pounds, Constable of Watertown, Massachusetts, Surveyor of Highways of Watertown, Massachusetts, Fence Viewer of Watertown, Massachusetts, on a committee to design a bridge

Samuel Stone (1631 - 1715), he was very prominent in religious affairs. In Oct 1654 he served as a soldier in a company of sixty men under Maj. Simon Willard on a sixteen day expedition into Rhode Island against Ninigret, sachem of the Niantic Indians. He served on various committees and in 1673, 1681, 1688 and 1692 he was a Selectman. In 1694, 1697 and 1698 he was Assessor. His estate was worth an nearly 1,000 pounds, which was a considerable amount in those days

Col. James Swan (1754 - 1830), merchant and financier, paid America's debt with France from the American Revolutionary War with his own finances.

Nathaniel Sylvester (1610 - 1880), Lord of the Manor and co purchaser of Shelter Island, New York

Hon. Samuel Symonds (1588 - 1654), Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

T
Anthony Taylor (1607 - 1687), large proprietor, served on many juries and special inquest and grand juries. Fence Viewer, Appraiser, Constable, Selectmen, Tavern Keeper and a felt maker by trade

Lt. Robert Turner (1611 - 1651), shoe maker by trade in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Lieutenant in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in Massachusetts

W
Col. Edward Ward, Jr. (1694 - 1766), proprietor of 560 acres in Virginia, was a colonel of a militia in virginia and served in the Indian Wars.

William Warner (1594 - 1648), 1st proprietor of Ipswich, Massachusetts

Dr. Lemann William Williams (1888 - 1959), Doctor in Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia

Lt. Gov. John Wentworth (1671 - 1730), 1st Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Hampshire

William Wentworth (1615 - 1697), Sawmill proprietor, church elder, follower of John Wheelwright

Michael Williams (c.1617 - 1650), Constable of Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland, proprietor of 443 acres

Hon. Lt. Archelaus Woodman (1613 - 1702), Deputy and Representative to the Massachusetts Bay Colony Court

Richard Woodman (1515-1557), he was part of the largest burning at the steak in English history

Hon. Gov. George Wyllys (1590 - 1644), Lord of the Manor of Fenny Compton, 4th Governor of the Colony of Connecticut

B
Hon. Col. Theophilus Burrill (1669 - 1737), Treasurer of Salem, Colonel of the Essex County Regiment of Militia, Captain of the Salem Company in the expedition agains Port Royal, Major, Representatives to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Salem, member of the Governor's Council, Councilor of a Committee appointed to repair to Kittery and view the situation, Justice of the Peace of the counties of Essex and Suffolk, Special Justice of the Pleas, Selectmen of Salem for eleven years of, Surveyor of Highways, Town Clerk of Salem

C
Sheriff Lt. Col. Gardiner Chandler (1723 - 1782), merchant prince, High Sheriff of Worcester, Massachusetts, Selectmen of Watertown, Massachusetts, Treasurer of Worcester, Massachusetts, Lieutenant Colonel in the American Revolutionary War

Hon. Col. John Chandler V, Esq. (1720 - 1800), Treasurer of town of Worcester, Massachusetts

Hon. Joseph Hodges Choate, A.M., LL.D (1832 - 1917), American Ambassador to Great Britain

Hon. William Gardner Choate, Esq., A.M., LL.BP (1830 - 1920) , United States Federal Judge, builder and founder of Choate School

Hon. Capt. Jacob Crowninshield (1770 - 1808), Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 2nd district, Member of the Massachusetts Senate, Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, Captain of the ship Active, Captain of the ship Henry

D
[http://quinnbradleesancestors.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Danforth_%281623_-_1699%29 Dep. Gov. Thomas Danforth, Esq.(1623 - 1699)], Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Lord Proprietor and President of the Provence of Maine, Assistant to the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England Justice of Massachusetts Bay Colony Superior Court, Clerk of Cambridge, Recorder of Deeds for Middlesex County, Deputy to the Massachusetts General Court, Treasurer of Harvard College, Clerk of the Harvard Overseers, proprietor of 15,000 acres of land which eventually became Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Elias Hasket "King" Derby (1739 - 1799), said to be the first millionaire in America

Capt. John Derby (1741 - 1812), Delivered the news of the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War to England in secret

F
Capt. George Fairbanks (1619 - 1681), first settler of Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Town Selectmen, Captain in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

Dr. Jonathan Fairbanks (1689 - 1754), physician in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

H
Hon. Ebenezer Hall, Jr. (1771-1851), Representative of Medford, 1799, 1800

Hon. Col. Elias Hasket (167 - ), 12th Governor of the Bahamas from 1700 to 1701

Maj. Gen. Hezekiah Hayne (1621 - 1693)  Major General in the English Civil War

G
Hon. James Greene (1626 - 1698), Commissioner of the Colony of Rhode Island, Deputy Assistant to the Colony of Rhode Island, Member of the General Assembly of the Colony of Rhode Island, Town Clerk

Dr. John Greene (1597 - 1659), military surgeon in Rhode Island

Hon. John Green, Jr. (1620 - 1708), 14th Deputy Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island, Town Clerk of Warwick, Rhode Island, Agent for the Colony of Rhode island to England, Assistant to the Colonial Assemblies

Hon. Peter Greene, Esq. (1622 - 1659), President or Governor of Rhode Island, Magistrate, Foreign Commissioner, Judge, Assemblyman, Corporate

P
Hon. Col. Timothy Pickering, Esq. (1745 -1829), 3rd United States Secretary of State, 2nd United States Secretary of War, 2nd United States Postmaster General

Hon. Col. David Putnam (1707-1768),

Hon. Nathaniel "Land Lord" Putnam (1619 - 1700), involved in the Salem Witch Trials, Constable of Salem Village, Essex County, Massachusetts, Representatives from Salem Village, Essex County, Massachusetts, to the Massachusetts General Court, Deputy from Salem Village, Essex County, Massachusetts to the Massachusetts General Court

S
Rev. John Turner Sargent, Jr. (1807 - 1867), minister-at-large of the, co-author, slavery abolitionists, fought for woman's rights and the poor.

Joseph Swan (bet.1762&1812 - ), Judge

Cousins
Hon. Rufus Choate, LL.D (1799 - 1859), 10th Massachusetts Attorney General, U.S. Senator

Gov. Benning Wentworth (1696 - 1770), 1st Royal Governor of the Province of New Hampshire

Direct Ancestors
Rev. John "Roaring" Rogers (c. 1570 - 1636), lecturer of Dedham, Essex, England

Sir Adam Francis Kt (c. 1343 - ), Mayor of London

John Vowell Hooker, MP (1521 - 1601), Member of Parliament

John Kenrick (1604 - 1686), Sheriff of London

Sir Geoffrey le Scope, Kt (1285 - 1340), Chief Justice of the King's Bench

Sir Armagil Waad, Kt, MP (1511 - 1568), Member of Parliament

Sir William Waad, Kt, Mp (1546 - 1623), Member of Parliament

Direct Ancestors
Col. John Porter (1642 - 1665), Colonel in Oliver Cromwell's Army

Col. Roger Tasker (1606 - 1688), Lord High Chancellor of Ireland