Jonathan Jackson was born in 1743 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son of Edward Jackson (1708–1757) and Dorothy Quincy Jackson. He graduated from Harvard in 1761 and…
Artemas Ward (November 26, 1727 – October 28, 1800) was an American major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts. President John Adams described…
George Thatcher (April 12, 1754– April 6, 1824) was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from the Maine district of Massachusetts. His name sometimes appears as George Thacher.…
Theodore Sedgwick (May 9, 1746{spaced ndash}January 24, 1813) was an American attorney, politician and jurist, who served in elected state government and as a Delegate to the Continental…
George Partridge (February 8, 1740–July 7, 1828) was an American teacher and politician. He represented Massachusetts as a delegate to the Continental Congress and as a Representative in…
Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was a Massachusetts lawyer and politician, best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence as a…
Samuel Allyne Otis (son of James Otis, Sr., father of Harrison Gray Otis and brother of prominent revolutionary James Otis, Jr. and America’s first female playwright Mercy Otis…
Samuel Osgood (February 3, 1747 – August 12, 1813) was an American merchant and statesman born in North Andover, Massachusetts, parent town of the Andovers. His family home…
John Lowell (June 17, 1743, Newburyport, Massachusetts – May 6, 1802, Roxbury, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer, selectman, jurist, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and federal…