Edward Whalley was an English military leader during the English Civil War and was one of the regicides who signed the death warrant of King Charles I of England.
William Goffe was an English Roundhead politician and soldier, perhaps best known for his role in the execution of King Charles I and later flight to America.
Urian Oakes was an English-born American Congregational minister and educator.
Thomas Oliver was the last Royal Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Samuel Whittemore was an American farmer and soldier. He was 78 years old when he became the oldest known colonial combatant in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83).
The Great Bridge over the Charles River connected Cambridge, Massachusetts, to what is now known as Allston, Boston, Massachusetts. The Great Bridge was built in 1660–1662 at what was then called Brighton Street, and was the first bridge to span the Charles. A toll was authorized in 1670. The bridge was rebuilt in 1862.
The Charles River Dam Bridge, officially the Craigie Bridge, also called Craigie's Bridge or the Canal Bridge, is a six-lane bascule bridge across the Charles River in the West End neighborhood of Boston. The bridge, maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, carries Massachusetts Route 28 next to the Green Line's Lechmere Viaduct. The Museum of Science is located on the dam and nearby piers. Charles River Dam Road connects Leverett Circle in the West End to East Cambridge, but most of the road is fixed, and the asymmetrically sited drawbridge is a short span entirely on the Boston side of the river.
Timothy Dwight Ruggles was an American colonial military leader, jurist, and politician. He was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and later a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.
Reverend William Blaxton was an early English settler in New England and the first European settler of Boston and Rhode Island.
John Russell was a Puritan minister in Hadley, Massachusetts during King Philip's War. As such, he is part of the Angel of Hadley legend.
Otis C. Norcross served as the nineteenth Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, from January 7, 1867 to January 6, 1868 during the Reconstruction era of the United States. Norcross was a candidate (1861) for the Massachusetts State House of Representatives; served as a member of Boston's Board of Aldermen from January 6, 1862 to January 2, 1865; Chairmen of the Board of Aldermen from January 4, 1864 to January 2, 1865; and served as a Trustee of the City Hospital, 1865 & 1866; and a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council, under Gov. William Claflin (1869).
John Sherburne Sleeper (1794–1878) was an American sailor, ship master, novelist, journalist and politician.
James Dinan Green was a Massachusetts politician who served as a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, a member of the Board of Selectmen and the first, fourth and eighth Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Samuel Leland Montague was a Massachusetts politician who served on the Common Council, the Board of Aldermen and as the Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Henry H. Gilmore was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served on the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Medford, Massachusetts and as the Mayor of The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Charles Hicks Saunders was a Massachusetts politician who served on the Common Council, Board of Aldermen and as the Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Saunders was the son of William Saunders, a housewright and cabinet maker in Cambridge, and Sarah Flagg. Through his Sarah Flagg Saunders, Charles Hicks Saunders was the great-grandson of John Hicks, an American Patriot killed by the British in Arlington, Massachusetts during the British retreat from Concord. He was married to Mary Brooks, nee Ball, in 1849.
Frank Augustus Allen was a Massachusetts politician who served as the Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
St Nicholas Church, Sutton, is a Grade II* listed parish church in the centre of Sutton, London. It was built between 1862 and 1864 in the Gothic style with dressed flint and stone dressings. It was designed by the architect Edwin Nash.
Richard Callicott (1604–1686) was a New England colonist who was a fur trader, land investor, and early leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He also had two Indian servants who became prominent translators in New York and New England.
