Judge Nathaniel Saltonstall was chosen to preside over the Salem witch trials in the 17th century ; however, he found the trials objectionable and recused himself.

) Major Nathaniel Saltonstall Esq.

The Saltonstall family is a Boston Brahmin family from the U. S. state of Massachusetts, notable for having had a family member attend Harvard University from every generation since Nathaniel Saltonstall — later one of the more principled judges at the Salem Witch Trials — graduated in 1659.

* Nathaniel Saltonstall, judge at Salem Witch Trials

Another daughter, Mary Winthrop ( 1712 – 1776 ), married Gurdon Saltonstall, Jr. ( 1708 – 1785 ), son of Governor of Connecticut Gurdon Saltonstall ( 1666 – 1724 ) of the Massachusetts Nathaniel Saltonstall family.

* Nathaniel Vincent ( 1639 ?- 1697 ), nonconformist minister and writer, lived in Langley after the Restoration ( he was ejected in 1662 )

Although deposed in 1639 by the then Governor John Winthrop in what some have considered to be Massachusetts ' first Witch Trial, Theophilus ' younger brother Nathaniel Eaton ( 1609 – 1674 ) was the first schoolmaster of Harvard College.

When Nathaniel Eaton was dismissed in 1639 as master of the recently-established Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dunster was appointed as his successor.

* 1639 Nathaniel Taynton

* 1997 – Nathaniel Gleed, English actor

* 1762 – 1764 Nathaniel Bliss

* 1718 – Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish painter ( d. 1784 )

The couple had six children: James ( 1763 – 94 ), Nathaniel ( 1764 – 81 ), Elizabeth ( 1767 – 71 ), Joseph ( 1768 – 68 ), George ( 1772 – 72 ) and Hugh ( 1776 – 93 ).

* 1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist ( d. 1676 )

* 1816 – Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician ( d. 1894 )

* 1859 – Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India ( d. 1925 )

* 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer ( d. 1864 )

* 1975 – Nathaniel Marston, American actor

* 1883 – Nathaniel Cartmell, American athlete ( d. 1967 )

* 1984 – Nathaniel Motte, American musician ( 3OH! 3 )

* 1735 – Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter ( d. 1811 )

* 1850 – The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.

* 1838 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician ( b. 1773 )

Methodism came to the Caribbean in 1760 when the planter, lawyer and Speaker of the Antiguan House of Assembly – Nathaniel Gilbert III (~ 1719 – 1774 ) returned to his sugar estate home in Antigua.

* 1811 – Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist ( d. 1891 )

* 1700 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer ( d. 1764 )

* 1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica ( the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him ).

* Nathaniel Rochester ( 1752 – 1831 ), American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, founder of Rochester, New York

In 1683 Nathaniel Bond ( 1634 – 1707 ) of Lutton acquired Tyneham from the Williams family.

In 1707 he was one of the Jacobite peers for whose conduct David Murray, fifth Viscount Stormont, answered to Colonel Nathaniel Hooke, envoy from St Germain.

The first president ( Henry Dunster ), the first benefactor ( John Harvard ), and the first schoolmaster ( Nathaniel Eaton ) of Harvard were all Cambridge University alumni, as was the then ruling ( and first ) governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop.

The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana ( 1702 ), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations after the American Revolution.

Nevertheless, all the distinctive Christadelphian doctrines, down to interpretations of specific verses, can be found particularly among 16th century Socinian writers ( e. g. the rejection of the doctrines of the trinity, pre-existence of Christ, immortal souls, a literal hell of fire, original sin ) Christian Thomasius ( 1704 ), Arthur Ashley Sykes ( 1737 ), Nathaniel Lardner ( 1742 ), Dr. Richard Mead ( 1755 ), Hugh Farmer ( at least in the account of Christ's temptation ; 1761 ), William Ashdowne ( 1791 ), John Simpson ( 1804 ) and John Epps ( 1842 )

In a version told by Nathaniel Hawthorne in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys ( 1852 ), Midas found that when he touched his daughter, she turned to gold as well.

* Nathaniel Rochester ( computer scientist ) ( 1919 – 2001 ), designed the IBM 701, wrote the first assembler and participated in the founding of the field of artificial intelligence

* Thomas H. Rochester ( 1797 – 1874 ), the 6th son of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and the 6th mayor of Rochester

On July 24, a committee of five ( John Rutledge ( SC ), Edmund Randolph ( VA ), Nathaniel Gorham ( MA ), Oliver Ellsworth ( CT ), and James Wilson ( PA ) was elected to draft a detailed constitution.

* Nathaniel Bacon of England ( 1585 – 1627 ), painter ( not to be confused with the leader of the same name of Bacon's Rebellion )

* Nathaniel Courthope of England ( 1585 – 1620 ), merchant navy officer

When the Mayflower's story was retold by historians Nathaniel Morton ( in 1669 ) and Cotton Mather ( in 1702 ), both paraphrased Bradford's passage, and used Bradford's word pilgrims.

* James Brainerd Taylor ( no relation to Nathaniel William Taylor ), Reformed, mentored by Asahel Nettleton