Unknown members of theMassachuset Native Community

William Blaxton (Blackstone) 

• (1595– 26 May 1675)

• Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England

• Attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge

• Ordained as a priest of the Church of England

• Arrived in Weymouth MA in 1623

• Lived on what is now the Boston Common

John Winthrop 

• January 12, 1587 – March 26, 1649)

• First governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Elected while still in England

• Married to Mary Forth, remarried twice

• Had 5 children

• Emigrated to escape religious persecution of the puritans

• Arrived with 700 settlers

• Sat on the council which decided to raid Native villages on Block Island (Pequot War’s first major action)

• Actively kept 1 Pequot male and 2 females as slaves