Elihu Yale 1649 - 1721; Elihu Yale was a British merchant and philanthropist, Governor of the East India Company settlement in Bengal, at Calcutta and Chennai and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor.
Sir William Phips 1651 - 1695; Sir William Phips was a shipwright, ship's captain, treasure hunter, military leader, and the first royally-appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
William Randolph 1650 - 1711; William Randolph was a colonist and land owner who played an important role in the history and government of the British colony of Virginia. He moved to Virginia sometime between 1669 and 1673, and married Mary Isham a few years later.
Francis Daniel Pastorius 1651 - 1720; Francis Daniel Pastorius was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanent German settlement and the gateway for subsequent emigrants from Germany.
John Wise 1652 - 1725; John Wise was a Congregationalist reverend and political leader in Massachusetts during the American colonial period.
William Byrd 1652 - 1704; William Byrd I was a native of Shadwell, London, England. His father, John Bird was a London goldsmith with ancestral roots in Cheshire, England. (I think the reference was actually his son, William Byrd II).
Samuel Sewall 1652 - 1730; Samuel Sewall was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay The Selling of Joseph, which criticized slavery.
James Blair 1655 - 1743; James Blair D.D. was a Scottish born clergyman in the Church of England. He was also a missionary and an educator, best known as the founder of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
Hannah Dustin 1657 - 1730; Hannah Duston was a 40-year-old colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother of eight during King William's War who was taken captive with her newborn daughter during the Raid on Haverhill.
Peter Schuyler 1657 - 1724; Pieter Schuyler was the first mayor of Albany, New York and the head of the Albany Commissioners for Indian Affairs. He also served as acting Governor of New York in 1709 and from 1719 – 1720.
Thomas Brattle 1658 - 1713; Thomas Brattle was a well-educated and prosperous Boston merchant who served as treasurer of Harvard College, and was a member of the intellectually elite Royal Society. (The reference might have been Increase Mather).
Samuel Cranston 1659 - 1727; Samuel Cranston was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations during the first quarter of the 18th century.
Cotton Mather 1663 - 1728; Cotton Mather, FRS was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.
Robert "King" Carter 1663 - 1732; Robert "King" Carter, of Lancaster County, was an American businessman and colonist in Virginia and became one of the wealthiest men in the colonies.
Gurdon Saltonstall 1666 - 1724; Gurdon Saltonstall was governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1708 to 1724. Born into a distinguished family, Saltonstall became an accomplished and eminent Connecticut pastor.
Lewis Morris 1671 - 1746; Lewis Morris, chief justice of New York and British governor of New Jersey, was the first lord of the manor of Morrisania in New York.
Rovert Beverly 1673 - 1722; Robert Beverley, Jr. was an important historian of early colonial Virginia. He was born in Jamestown and died in King and Queen County, Virginia. He was also a substantial planter of the time as well as an official in the colonial government.
Benjamin Colman 1673 - 1747; was the companion of Cotton Mather at the celebrated school of Ezekiel Cheever.
International Peers
King William III; William III & II was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic.
Duke of Marlborough 1650 - 1722; was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs. Rising from a lowly page at the court of the House of Stuart, he served James, Duke of York, through the 1670s and early 1680s, earning military and political advancement through his courage and diplomatic skill. Churchill's role in defeating the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 helped secure James on the throne, yet just three years later he abandoned his Catholic patron for the Protestant Dutchman, William of Orange. Honoured for his services at William's coronation with the earldom of Marlborough, he served with further distinction in the early years of the Nine Years' War, but persistent charges of Jacobitism brought about his fall from office and temporary imprisonment in the Tower. It was not until the accession of Queen Anne in 1702 that Marlborough reached the zenith of his powers and secured his fame and fortune.
Queen Anne 1665 - 1714; Anne became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719; Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.
Peter the Great 1672 - 1725; Peter the Great, Peter I or Pyotr Alexeyevich ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his half-brother.
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