This is a list of members of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...
during the colonial era.
For members of the Massachusetts House after the ratification of the
Massachusetts Constitution
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the fundamental governing document of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 individual state governments that make up the United States of America. As a member of the Massachuset ...
in 1780, see
:Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams ( – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, an ...
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Humphrey Atherton
Major-General Humphrey Atherton, (c. 1607 – September 16, 1661), an early settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts, held the highest military rank in colonial New England.Adams, William Frederick, William Richard Cutter. ''Genealogical and pers ...
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Peter Atherton
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William Brattle
Major-General William Brattle (April 18, 1706 – October 25, 1776) was an American politician, lawyer, cleric, physician and military officer who served as the Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1736 to 1738. Brattle is best known for h ...
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James Bowdoin
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John Chandler (sheriff)
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John Cogswell
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James Converse
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Elisha Cooke Sr.
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Elisha Cooke Jr.
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George Cooke (Massachusetts politician)
George Cooke (died in 1652) was an American colonial politician and the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1645.
Biography
George Cooke journeyed from England with Thomas Shepard and Roger Harlakenden in 1635. He eventually ...
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Thomas Cushing
Thomas Cushing III (March 24, 1725 – February 28, 1788) was an American lawyer, merchant, and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. Active in Boston politics, he represented the city in the provincial assembly from 1761 to its dissolution ...
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Thomas Cushing II
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Richard Dana (lawyer)
Richard Dana (June 26, 1700 – May 17, 1772) was a prominent lawyer and politician in colonial Massachusetts, and member of the Dana family.
Early life
Dana was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 26, 1700. He was the son of Daniel Dana ...
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Thomas Drury (1668)
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Joseph Ellis Jr.
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Anthony Fisher (Massachusetts politician) Lieutenant Anthony Fisher represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also a selectman for three years.
Fisher was baptized in Syleham, Suffolk in April 1591 and lived on the south bank of the River Waveney on an esta ...
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Joshua Fisher (Massachusetts politician)
Lieutenant Joshua Fisher (-August 10, 1672) was a politician from Dedham, Massachusetts and a member of the Massachusetts House of Deputies. He was a blacksmith, saw mill owner, and tavern keeper.
Personal life
Fisher was born c. 1620 and baptiz ...
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Nathaniel Gorham
Nathaniel Gorham (May 27, 1738 – June 11, 1796; sometimes spelled ''Nathanial'') was an American Founding Father, merchant, and politician from Massachusetts. He was a delegate from the Bay Colony to the Continental Congress and for six months ...
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Stephen Greenleaf
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Jeremiah Gridley
Jeremiah Gridley or Jeremy Gridley (1702–1767) was a lawyer, editor, colonial legislator, and attorney general in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century. He served as "Grand Master of the Masons in North America" around the 1760s, and wa ...
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John Grout
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Robert Hale (doctor)
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John Hancock
John Hancock ( – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of t ...
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Thomas Hastings (colonist)
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Joseph Hawley (Massachusetts politician)
Joseph Hawley III (October 8, 1723 – March 10, 1788) was a political leader from Massachusetts during the era of the American Revolution.
Joseph Hawley III was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, a son of Joseph Hawley II (28 August 1682 - 1 ...
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Thomas Hutchinson (governor)
Thomas Hutchinson (9 September 1711 – 3 June 1780) was a businessman, historian, and a prominent Loyalist politician of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years before the American Revolution. He has been referred to as "the most import ...
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Nehemiah Jewett
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John Leavitt
Deacon John Leavitt (1608–1691) was a tailor, public officeholder, and founding deacon of Old Ship Church in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, the only remaining 17th-century Puritan meeting house in America and the oldest church in con ...
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Benjamin Lincoln
Benjamin Lincoln (January 24, 1733 ( O.S. January 13, 1733) – May 9, 1810) was an American army officer. He served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Lincoln was involved in three major surrenders ...
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Samuel Livermore (1768–1769)
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Andrew Oliver
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Azor Orne
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James Otis Sr.
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James Otis Jr.
James Otis Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was an American lawyer, political activist, colonial legislator, and early supporter of patriotic causes in Massachusetts at the beginning of the Revolutionary Era. Otis was a fervent opponent ...
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Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was an American lawyer, politician and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. ...
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Joseph Parsons Jr.
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William Phillips Sr.
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Edmund Quincy (1628-1698) Edmund Quincy may refer to:
*Edmund Quincy (1602–1636), settled Mount Wollaston area of Quincy, Massachusetts around 1628
*Edmund Quincy (1628–1698), colonist, Massachusetts representative, son of Edmund (1602–1636)
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John Quincy
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Edmund Rice (colonist)
Edmund Rice (c. 1594 – 3 May 1663), was an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony born in Suffolk, England. He lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire before sailing with his family to America. He landed in the Co ...
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Thomas Rice (1654)
Thomas Rice (June 30, 1654 – 1747) was a member of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts representing Marlborough in 1715 and 1716 and was a founder of Westborough, Massachusetts on 18 November 1717, and a selectman for the town ...
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Thomas Rice (1734)
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John Rowe (merchant) __NOTOC__
John Rowe (1715–1787) was a property developer and merchant in 18th century Boston, Massachusetts. As a merchant, John Rowe's most famous cargo was the tea that played a starring role in the Boston Tea Party. As a developer, his name i ...
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Timothy Ruggles
Timothy Dwight Ruggles (October 20, 1711 – August 4, 1795) 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.
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Robert Sedgwick
Major General Robert Sedgwick (c. 1611 – 1656) was an English colonist, born 1611 in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, and baptised on 6 May 1613.
Biography
He was the son of William Sedgwick of London, and brother of English priest William Sed ...
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Joseph Sherman (Massachusetts Bay Colony)
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Josiah Taft
Josiah Taft (April 2, 1709 – September 30, 1756) was a wealthy landowner in Uxbridge, Massachusetts best known as the husband of Lydia Taft, the first woman to vote in America.
Early life
Josiah was born on April 2, 1709, at Mendon, Province ...
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Samuel White (Massachusetts politician)
See also
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Massachusetts Charter
The Massachusetts Charter of 1691 was a charter that formally established the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Issued by the government of William III and Mary II, the corulers of the Kingdom of England, the charter defined the government of the co ...
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Boston Board of Selectmen
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List of colonial governors of Massachusetts
The territory of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the fifty United States, was settled in the 17th century by several different English colonies. The territories claimed or administered by these colonies encompassed a much larger area tha ...
External links
Boston Public Library Boston Record Commissioner's Reports
Massachusetts Bay (Colony) Treasury accounts (1699)Massachusetts Bay (Colony) Treasury accounts (1699)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:List of members of the colonial Massachusetts House of Representatives
Members of the colonial Massachusetts House of Representatives
People of colonial Massachusetts
Government of colonial Massachusetts