The Cavalier Generation, born in colonial America between 1615 - 1647. Bio info below portraits is from Wikipedia.
Mary Dyer 1616 - 1660; Mary Barrett Dyer was an English Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs.
Arent Van Curler 1619 - 1667; Arent van Curler, later van Corlaer, was the cousin of Kiliaen van Rensselaer and undertook the management of Rensselaer's patroonship Rensselaerswyck in the Dutch colony of New Netherland perhaps as early as 1630, and continued there until 1646.
John Carter 1620 - 1669; Father of Robert "King" Carter I.
Josias Fendall c1620 - 1687; Lieutenant-General Josias Fendall, Esq., was the 4th Proprietary Governor of Maryland. He was born in England, and came to the Province of Maryland. He was the progenitor of the Fendall family in America.
Don't remember who this is, either John Hull (1624 - 1683) or John Pynchon (1626 - 1703).
William Stoughton 1631 - 1701; William Stoughton was a colonial magistrate and administrator in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was in charge of what have come to be known as the Salem Witch Trials, first as the Chief Justice ...
Michael Wigglesworth 1631 - 1705; Michael Wigglesworth was a Puritan minister and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early New England.
Increase Mather 1639 - 1723; Increase Mather was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay.
George Keith 1638 - 1707; George Keith was a Scottish missionary.
Benjamin Church 1639 - 1718; Dr. Benjamin Church was effectively the first Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, serving as the "Chief Physician & Director General" of the Medical Service of the Continental Army from July 27, 1775 to October 17, 1775.
Jacob Leisler 1640 - 1691; Jacob Leisler was a German born American colonist. He helped create the Huguenot settlement of New Rochelle in 1688 and later served as the acting Lieutenant Governor of New York.
Metacomet c. 1642 - 1676; Metacomet, also known as King Philip or Metacom, or occasionally Pometacom, was a war chief or sachem of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War, a widespread uprising against English colonists in New England.
Solomon Stoddard 1643 - 1729; Solomon Stoddard was the pastor of the Congregationalist Church in Northampton, MA. He succeeded the Rev. Eleazer Mather, marrying his widow around 1670.
William Kidd 1645 - 1701; Captain William Kidd was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.
Nathaniel Bacon 1647 - 1676; Nathaniel Bacon was a colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.
Joseph Dudley 1647 - 1720; Joseph Dudley was an English colonial administrator. A native of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and the son of one of its founders, Dudley had a leading role in the administration of the Dominion of New England.
International Cohorts
Aurangzeb 1618 - 1707; was the sixth Mughal Emperor and ruled over most of the Indian subcontinent. His reign lasted for 49 years from 1658 until his death in 1707. Aurangzeb was a notable expansionist and during his reign, the Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent. He was among the wealthiest of the Mughal rulers.
King Charles II of England 1630 - 1685; Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War.
John Locke 1632 - 1704; John Locke FRS, widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.
King Louis XIV of France 1638 - 1715; Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death.
William Penn 1644 - 1718; William Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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