His family had been in Massachusetts Bay since 1632, and his father, Aaron Bancroft, was distinguished as a revolutionary soldier, a leading Unitarian clergyman and author of a popular life of George Washington.

Nathaniel Prentice ( or Prentiss ) Banks ( January 30, 1816 September 1, 1894 ) was an American politician and soldier, served as the 24th Governor of Massachusetts, Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives and as a Union general during the American Civil War.

* Michael Jackson ( American Revolution ) ( 1734 – 1801 ), soldier from Massachusetts, wounded at Bunker Hill

Both of Plimpton's maternal grandparents were born with the surname Ames ; his mother was the granddaughter of Medal of Honor recipient Adelbert Ames, an American sailor, soldier, and politician, and Oliver Ames, a U. S. political figure and the 35th Governor of Massachusetts ( 1887 – 1890 ).

Daniel Shays ( c. 1747 – September 29, 1825 ) was an American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer famous for being one of the leaders of Shays ' Rebellion, a populist uprising against oppressive debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787.

* Henry Jackson ( general ) ( 1747 – 1809 ), Massachusetts soldier in the American Revolutionary War

* Thomas Wheeler ( c. 1620 – 1686 ), Massachusetts Bay colonial soldier

The General Court of Massachusetts verified her service and wrote that she " exhibited an extraordinary instance of female heroism by discharging the duties of a faithful gallant soldier, and at the same time preserving the virtue and chastity of her gender, unsuspected and unblemished ".

John Thomas ( 1724 – 2 June 1776 ) was an American doctor and soldier from Massachusetts who became a major general in the Continental Army.

John Underhill ( 7 October 1597 – 21 July 1672 ) was an early English settler and soldier in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, the New Haven Colony, New Netherland, and later the Province of New York.

One such version, from Massachusetts, is about Alan McCollister, an Irish-American soldier who is sentenced to death by hanging for robbing British officials.

Silas Stillman Soule ( July 26, 1838 – April 23, 1865 ) was a Massachusetts abolitionist, Kansas Territory Jayhawker, and a soldier in the Colorado infantry and cavalry during the American Civil War.

John Leverett ( baptized 7 July 1616 – 16 March 1678 / 9 ) was an English colonial magistrate, merchant, soldier and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Seth Pomeroy ( May 20, 1706 – February 9, 1777 ) was an American gunsmith and soldier from Northampton, Massachusetts.

He fought as a private soldier in the Battle of Bunker Hill, but was later appointed a major general in the Massachusetts militia.

William Heath ( March 7, 1737 – January 24, 1814 ) was an American farmer, soldier, and political leader from Massachusetts who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet ( 27 June 1696 – 6 July 1759 ) was a merchant and soldier in Colonial Massachusetts.

* Captain John Underhill ( 1597 – 1672 ), English colonist and soldier in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

* Samuel Waldo ( merchant ) ( 1695 – 1759 ), Massachusetts land speculator, soldier and political figure

An American soldier was mortally wounded in the attack, and suddenly Groenevelt remembers the GI's name: Major Joachim Stiller, Longwood, Massachusetts.

It is a relatively undisturbed fort and was named in honor of a native of Massachusetts, Randolph B. Marcy, a distinguished soldier and father-in-law and chief of staff to General George B. McClellan.

The Josiah Quincy House (), located at 20 Muirhead Street in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, was the country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy I, the first in a line of six illustrious Josiah Quincys that included three Boston mayors and a president of Harvard University.

Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.

Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.

Coleman is married to glass artist Josh Simpson who lives in Massachusetts.

The best-known of these was the Twitchell Case in Massachusetts, in which parents David and Ginger Twitchell were convicted in 1990 of involuntary manslaughter in the death of their two-year-old son Robyn, who succumbed to a bowel obstruction.

Calling the red berries Sassamanash, natives may have introduced cranberries to starving English settlers in Massachusetts who incorporated the berries into traditional Thanksgiving feasts.

On 11 December 1695, Bellomont, who was now governing New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the " trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd " to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships.

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

Reformers were led by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who favored modification ( but ultimately voted for the defense authorization bill with the gay ban language ), and Barry Goldwater, a former Republican Senator and a retired Major General, who argued on behalf of allowing service by open gays and lesbians.

On September 8, Schuyler sent Allen and Massachusetts Major John Brown, who had also been involved in the capture of Ticonderoga, into the countryside between St. John and Montreal to spread the word of their arrival to the habitants and the Indians.

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

Thomas W. Malone of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology champions a modern variant of the guild structure for modern " e-lancers ", professionals who do mostly telework for multiple employers.

Hay was born in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, the third son of Dr. Charles Hay and Helen Leonard from Middleborough, Massachusetts, who had come to Salem to live with her sister.

The current board consists of 43 members elected to five-year terms, 25 life members who vote until their 75th birthday, 3 elected officers ( President, Treasurer, and Secretary ), and 4 ex officio members ( the president of the alumni association, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Secretary of Education, and the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ).

Goodale was a young European-American teacher from Massachusetts and a reformer, who was appointed as the US superintendent of Native American education for the reservations in the Dakota Territory.

It was established in 1850 by Rob Morris, a lawyer and educator from Boston, Massachusetts, who had been an official with the Freemasons.

In 1660, one of the most notable victims of the religious intolerance was English Quaker Mary Dyer who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony.

Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, Massachusetts, seems to have been a woman of unusual mental gifts and independence of character.

Miantonomoh seems to have been friendly to the English colonists of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, though he was accused of being treacherous.

According to several of the books, Pina was living in Westport, Massachusetts when they were published, but he seems to have disappeared of late.

Leo though he seems to have some family connection to Boston, Massachusetts.

The idiom seems however of American origin ; its earliest known example is in a publication called the Massachusetts Spy for 14 June 1815: " I kept a stiff upper lip, and bought license to sell my goods.

The film ’ s Sedgwick seems carefree when she is about to leave for New York, whereas the book says that she was troubled at the time, impulsive and reckless, having seen a psychiatrist on a three visits per week basis while living in Massachusetts.