Well, this is my final entry for the Fun-A-Day Pittsburgh project. This entails the Puritan Generation (born 1584 - 1612), list some of the other entries, this is of important historical figures from Colonial America with a international figures (mostly English).
Oxford College in the early 17th Century
This is the generation of the first pilgrims and puritans that left Europe for religious freedom in the New World. There was also a colony started in Bermuda that is not well remembered by American Historians.
They founded colonies in New England like Salem and Plymouth.
John Cotton 1584 - 1652: Puritan Radical in England, arrived in Boston in 1633 and served as Congregationalist Minister there.
Myles Standish 1584 - 1656: Military Adviser on the Mayflower. A fictional story about him being shy romantic, written over a century later popularized the holiday Thanksgiving. He was not a Pilgrim himself.
John Rolf 1585 - 1622 and Pocahontas c1595 - 1617
Thomas Hobbes 1588 - 1679; Political Philosopher, wrote The Leviathan - he was an empiricist, and was interested in the great "social contracts" of societies.
John Winthorp 1588 - 1649; Puritan Minister and former lawyer who gave famous "Shining City upon a Hill" sermon during the voyage to the New World.
John Endecott 1589 - 1665; classic jerk Puritan.
William Bradford 1590 - 1657; came to the New World on the Mayflower, governor of Plymouth colony for 26 years.
William Pynchon 1590 - 1662; founder of Springfield Massachusetts, a fur trader and encouraged peace with the American Indians. Much more business minded than his contemporaries.
Anne Hutchinson 1591 - 1643; founded Rhode Island after exiled from Salem.
Peter Stuyvesant 1592 - 1672; director of New Amsterdam until it was ceded to England in 1664. Built a protective wall there that was the wall Wall street was named after. Had a peg leg.
Richard Mather - puritan clergyman
Rene Descartes 1596 - 1650: Father of Modern Philosophy, a Rationalist
John Davenport 1597 - 1670; founder of New Haven colony.
Oliver Cromwell 1599 - 1658; leader of the round-heads during the English Civil War and after the execution of Charles I of England.
King Charles I of England 1600 - 1649; The English King executed during the English Civil War.
Roger Williams 1605 - 1685; founded Rhode Island with Anne Hutchinson
Simon Bradstreet 1603 - 1697; one of the first Puritans to arrive and found Salem. Married to Anne Bradstreet.
John Eliot 1604 - 1690; apostle to the American Indians of the New England.
Sir William Berkeley 1605 - 1677; appointed in charge of Virginia Colony by Charles II of England. He was opposed during Bacon's Rebellion.
John Winthorp the Younger 1606 - 1676; son of John Winthrop, missed the boat his father was on to the New World and never got to hear the famous sermon.
John Harvard 1607 - 1638; died shortly after arriving in New England, he left a collection of books and money to start a school that would go on to be Harvard University.
John Milton 1608 - 1674: wrote Paradise Lost
Henry Dunster 1609 - 1659; first president of Harvard College in 1640.
Anne Bradstreet 1612 - 1672; was the most celebrated female writer in America until the early 19th century. She wrote The 10th Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, just rolls off the tongue doesn't it?
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