Born in Colonial America
Merchant Ship Captains
From Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
- Francis Boardman (1748-1792)
- Jacob Choate (1766-1813)
- Samuel Choate (-1713)
- William Choate (1730-1785)
- Hon. Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772-1851), later became the 5th U.S. Secretary of Navy
- George Crowninshield (1734-1815), founder of the shipping firm George Crowninshield & Sons
- George Crowninshied, Jr. (1766-1808), financier and designer of America's first yacht
- Jacob Crowninshield (1732-1774), brought the first elephant over to America from Calcutta, India
- Roger Derby (1712-1783), had a net worth of $70,000.
- Benjamin Hodges (1754-1806)
- Gamaliel Hodges I (1766-1850)
- Gamaliel Hodges II (1765-1827)
- John Hodges (1723-1799)
- Benjamin Manning (1696-)