Table of Contents

FOREWORD BY SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON INTRODUCTION Benjamin Wadsworth (1690) Henry Flynt (1693) William Vesey (1693) Jedediah Andrews (1695) Richard Saltonstall (1695) Samuel Vassall (1695) Peter Thacher (1696) John Read (1697) Jonathan Belcher (1699) Jeremiah Dummer (1699) Thomas Wells (M.A. 1703) Timothy Cutler (1701) Israel Loring (1701) Jared Eliot (1703) William Shurtleff (1707) Joshua Parker (1710) Samuel Phillips (1712) Hugh Hall (1713) Thomas Walter (1713) Benning Wentworth (1715) Isaac Greenwood (1721) Ebenezer Parkman (1721) William Brattle (1722) Jonathan Frye (1723) Samuel Coolidge (1724) Henry Phillips (1724) Mather Byles (1725) Benjamin Kent (1727) Solomon Prentice (1727) Josiah Quincy (1728) John Seccomb (1728) William Williams (1729) Peter Oliver (1730) Joseph Seccombe (1731) John Winthrop (1732) Thomas Bell (1734) John Phillips (1735) Andrew Eliot (1737) Benjamin Prat (1737) Oxenbridge Thacher (1738) Lemuel Briant (1739) John Tucker (1741) Samuel Auchmuty (1742) Edward Bromfield (1742) William Rand (1742) Samuel Cooper (1743) James Warren (1745) Edward Augustus Holyoke (1746) Samuel Moody (1746) Peaslee Collins (1747) Isaac Gardner (1747) Ebenezer Storer (1747) Samuel French (1748) Jonathan Sewall (1748) Samuel Haven (1749) Benjamin Marston (1749) Nathan Tisdale (1749) George Washington (1749) Thomas Dudley (1750) Henry Gardner (1750) INDEX

About the Author

Clifford Kenyon Shipton served as librarian and director of the American Antiquarian Society and head of the Harvard Archives. Samuel Eliot Morison was Professor of History at Harvard University. His books won two Pulitzer Prizes.

Reviews

Shipton has…the eye for the telling detail and the ear for the telling anecdote… He is witty and he has a lively sense of humor… These [are] admirable and sometimes touching biographies.
*Times Literary Supplement*

The lives, as written by Shipton, present as vivid a picture of eighteenth-century New England as any enthusiast could ask.
*Boston Sunday Globe*