Promoters and precursors: Richard Hakluyt, Captain John Smith, and Morton of Merrymount
Master John White, of Dorchester
John Winthrop, Esquire: The Puritan squire ; The transfer of the charter ; Governor of the Massachusetts
John Hull of Boston, goldsmith: The artist ; The business man
Henry Dunster, president of Harvard
Nathaniel Ward, lawmaker and wit
Robert Child, remonstrant
John Winthrop, Jr., industrial pioneer
John Eliot, apostle to the Indians
Mistress Anne Bradstreet.
From the Book - 2nd ed., rev. and enlarged.