Notable People and Families from Massachusetts

Apthorp

 * Charles Apthorp (1698-1758) financier, wealthiest man in Boston of his time
 * Sarah Wentworth Apthorp (1759-1846) American poet

Bradlee

 * Nathan Bradlee (1631-1701): born in Dorchester in 1631
 * Samuel Bradlee: Constable of Dorchester, Massachessts
 * Thomas Bradlee, Esq: Boston Tea Party participant; Publisher and Editor of the Long Island Farmer Newspaper; Justice of the Peace; Police Justice of the villiage of Jamaica, Massachusetts; member of the St. Andrews Lodge of Freemasons in Massachusetts
 * Capt. David Bradlee: Boston Tea Party participan; Captain in Col. Thomas Crafts Regiment; member of the St. Andres Lodge of Freemasons
 * Josiah Bradlee: Boston Tea Party participant; enlisted in American Revolution, foundeded Josiah Bradlee & Co., millionaire
 * Joseph Putnam Bradlee, millionaire
 * Nathan Bradlee: Boston Tea Party participant; member of the Massachusetts Charitable Association
 * Samuel Bradlee, Jr: Lieutenant Colonel during the American Revolutionary War
 * Sarah Bradlee: was dubbed the "Mother of the Boston Tea Party"
 * Frederick Josiah Bradlee I: Director of the Boston National Bank
 * Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr.: on the first All-American football team (at Harvard): Parole Officer of Massachusetts. Husbad of (Chevaliere) Josephine de Gersdorff
 * (Chevalier) Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (b. 26 Aug 1921): Chief Exexutive Editor of the Washington Post during Watergate scandal; Vice President at-large of the Washington Post

Choate

 * Rufus Choate (1799-1859): U.S. Senator
 * George C.S. Choate (1827-1896): founder of Choate Sanitarium, Pleasantville, N.Y.
 * Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917): U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain
 * William Gardner Choate (1830-1920): U.S. Federal Judge, founder of Choate Rosemary Hall
 * Sarah Choate Sears (1858-1935): art patron
 * Robert B. Choate, Jr. (1924-2009): businessman
 * Elizabeth Choate Spykman (1896-1965): writer

Crowninshield
Descent by marriage
 * Johan Casper Richter von Kronenscheldt: colonist
 * Jacob Crowninshield (1770-1808)
 * Arent Schuyler Crowninshield (1843-1908) U.S. Navy Admiral
 * Casper Crowninshield (1837-1897) Union Army Brevet Brigidier General
 * Benjamin William Crowninshield (1837-1892) Union Army Colonel
 * Frederic Crowninshield (1845-1918) First President of the National Society of Mural Painters
 * Frank Crowninshield (1872-1947) Creator and Editor of Vanity Fair
 * Bowdin Bradlee Crowninshield (1867-1948) American Naval Architect
 * William Crowninshield Endicott (1826-1900) 5th United States Secretary of War
 * Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892-1970) on the first All-American football team at Harvard, Parole Officer of the Massachusetts State Prisons
 * Frederick Josiah Bradlee III (1919-2003) Broadway actor, writer
 * Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (b.1921) Editor in-chief of the Washington Post during the Watergate scandal, and current Vice President at-large of the Washington Post.
 * Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee, Jr. A mannaging editor of the Boston Globe, author
 * Josiah Quinn Crowninshield Bradlee (b.1982) Founder and CEO of FriendsOfQuinn.com

Danforth

 * Nicholas Danforth (?-?) colonist, excapted a knighthood by Charles I of Engalnd
 * Thomas Danforth (c1623-1669) colonist, Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
 * Rev. Samuel Danforth (c1626-?) astronomer, graduated with the second class of Harvard in 1643
 * Rev. John Danforth (1660-?) colonial minister, philanthropist
 * Capt. Jonathan Danforth (c1627-?) selectmen, town clerck, representatice, captain of the militia of the county,land survery, businessman

Derby

 * Capt. Richard Derby: colonists, ship merchant
 * Elias Hasket "King" Derby (1739-1799): shipping merchant, millionaire
 * Capt. John Derby, shiping merchant, delivered the news of the end of the American Revolution to Britain

Hathorne

 * Maj. William Hathorn (c1606-1681) colonist, land owner
 * John Hathorn (1641-1717) Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature
 * Capt. Nathaniel Hathorne (1775-1808)
 * Nathaniel Hawthorn (born Nathaniel Hathorne) (1804-1864) American novelist
 * Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), journalist, author

Hubbard

 * Rev. William Hubbard (1621-1704): colonist, an American clergyman, historian and graduate of the first class at Harvard college in 1642
 * Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822-1897) : lawyer, a Massachusetts Supreme Court justice
 * Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (1857-1923): wife of Alexander Graham Bell

Morton

 * George Morton (c1585-1624) Pilgrim father, historian, emigrated on the ship Anne
 * Capt. Nathaniel Morton (c1616-1685) colinial secretary and historian, nephew of Gov. Wiliam Bradford
 * Perez Morton 1751-1837) Massachusetss Attornery General, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, graduate of Harvard

Perkins

 * Col. Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764-1854) Boston merchant, millionaire
 * Jacob Perkins (1766-1849) an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist
 * Francis Perkins (1880-1965) 4th Unites States Secretary of Labor
 * Isabel Weld Perkins (1876-1948) married Lars Anderson

Putnam

 * Capt. John Putnam (1627-1710) colonist
 * James Putnam (1725-1789) last Attorney General in Massachusetts before the American Revolution; judge and politician in New Brunswick
 * James Putnam (1756-1838) Canadian politician
 * Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam (1718-1790) American general during the American Revolutionary War
 * William Lowell Putnam (1861-1924)
 * George P. Putnam (1887-1950) publisher, exploerer, husband of Amelia Earhart
 * Katherine L. Putnam (1890-1983) wife of Harvey Hollister Bundy
 * Roger Lowell Putnam (1893-1972) politician, businessman

Rice

 * Deacon Edmun Rice (1594-1663): colonist
 * Thomas Rice (1768-1854): U.S. Congressman
 * Luther Rice (1783-1836): Baptist clergyman, missionary to India
 * William Marsh Rice (1816-1900): American buisnessman, founder of Rice University
 * Alexander Hamilton Rice (1818-1895): industrialist, Mayor of Boston, 30th Governor of Massachusetts
 * William Whitney Rice (1826-1896): U.S. Congressman
 * Americus Vespucius Rice (1835-1904), U.S. general, U.S. Congressman
 * Edmund Rice (1842-1906): U.S. Army Cival War general, Medal of Honor recipient
 * William North Rice (1845-1928):  geologist, educator

Rogers

 * Rev. Nathaniel Rogers (1598-1655) colonist, early American minister
 * John Rogers B.A, M.A. (1630-1684) graduate of Harvard, 6th President of Harvard

Sargent
Epes Sargent (1690-1762): merchant prince, colonel of the Essex County militia
 * Col. Paul Dudley Sargent (c1745-1826): American privateer, soldier and an American Revolutionary war hero
 * Judith Sargent (1751-1820): an American advocate for woman's rights, an essayist, playwrite and poet
 * John Sargent (1750-1824): loyalist officer during the American Revolution, Federalist
 * Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820): Feminist, essayist, playwright, poet
 * Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820): Patriot, governor politician, writier, Federalist
 * Daniel Sargent (1764-1842): Merchant, politician
 * Lt. Col. Henry Sargent (1770-1845): Colonel during the American Revolution, American painter
 * Henry Winthrop Sargent (1810-1882): American horticulturist and landscaper gardner
 * Lucius Manlius Sargent (1786-1867): American author, antiquarian, temperance advocate
 * Horace Binny Sargent (1821-1908): American Civil War general, politician
 * John Singer Sargent (1856-1925): American artist, was called the "leading portrait painter of his generation."
 * Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927): Was an American botanist, first director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum
 * Winthrop Sargent Gilman (1808-1884): Head of the banking house of Gilman, Son & Co. in New York City
 * Epes Sargent (1784-1853): An American editor, poet, playwright
 * Francis Williams Sargent (1915-1998): 64th Governor of Massachusetts
 * Maj. Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820) First Secretary of the North West Territory, first governor of the Mississippi Territory, an original member ofthe Society of the Cincinnati
 * Capt. Daniel Sargent III (1764-1802): President of the Boston Marien Insurance Company, Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

People

 * Maj. Gen. Henry Knox: American Revolution general