Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country. Harvard's history, influence, and ...
Williams College Wikipedia Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this period, beginning in 1962. Williams forms part of the historic Little Thr...
Wikipedia Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The university is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and the French Alps. The university emphasizes active citizenship and public service in all of its disciplines...
Wikipedia Phillips Academy Andover (also known as Phillips Academy, Andover, or PA) is a co-educational independent boarding preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate (PG) year. The school is located in Andover, Massachusetts, United States, 25 miles north of Boston. The school has a student population of 1,138, and is selective, accepting 13%...
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Gillette Stadium in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is located 21 miles (34 km) southwest of downtown Boston and 20 miles ...
Wikipedia Andover Theological Seminary (now know as Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School) traces its roots to the late 18th century and the desire for a well-educated clergy among Congregationalists in the United States. That desire was expressed in the founding of Phillips Academy in 1778 for "the promotion of true Piety and Virtue". In 1806, a growing split within the Congregation...
Wikipedia Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. Researchers worked on comp...
Endicott College is a private college in Beverly, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1939 as a two-year women's college. It began offering four-year degrees in 1988 and became coeducational in 1994. Endicott enrolled approximately 4,300 students as of the fall 2020 semester. It offers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs, as well as graduate-level certificates, with a curriculu...
The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered that "the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires". Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading.[4] In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Boston annexed several adjacent cities and to...
Scituate, Massachusetts is a small town on the South Shore of Massachusetts, south of Boston and northwest of the start of Cape Cod. It was first resettled by Europeans starting in 1623, with major resettlement beginning in 1627 and 1628 under the jurisdiction of the General Court at Plymouth. By 1636, it was developed enough to begin managing some of its own affairs.31 of the earliest families...
Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the total population was 743,159, making it the third-most populous county in Massachusetts. It is part of the Greater Boston area (the Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan Statistical Area). The largest city in Essex County is Lynn. It has two county seats: Salem and Lawrence. P...
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Amherst College=== Wikipedia =Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,817 students in the fall of 2012. Students choose courses from 35 major programs in an unusually open curriculum. Amherst is ranked as the second best liberal arts college in the country by ...
Barnstable County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 215,888.[1] Its county seat is Barnstable.[2] The county consists of Cape Cod and associated islands (some adjacent islands are in Dukes County and Nantucket County). Barnstable County comprises the Barnstable Town, MA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Official Website The Wampanoag Indians under sachem Massasoit (or Ousamequin) were living in this area when the earliest Europeans arrived. The county seat is the town of Plymouth, the site of the first permanent European settlement in New England (1620); Plymouth Rock State Park commemorates the lan...
Mount Holyoke Genealogy Project Oh, Mount Holyoke, we pay thee devotion, == In the fervour of youth that is strong,== The courage of right is thy garland, == Our lives, alma mater, thy song. == So from East and from west now we gather, == And united in firm love to thee, == All years are as one and their loyal pledge, == Mount Holyoke forever shall be, == Mount Holyoke forever shall b...
Thomas Mayhew , an English merchant and a settler of Watertown, Massachusetts, not far from Boston, bought in October, 1641, from Lord Stirling and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, through their agent James Forcett, the islands of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands. Lord Stirling and Sir Gorges having received their right of ownership from the English Crown. Among the families that...
This project is for those interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. From Find a Grave : Bostonians founded Mount Auburn in 1831 for both practical and aesthetic reasons: to solve an urban land use problem created by an increasing number of burials in the city and to create a tranquil and beautiful place where families could commemorate their loved ones w...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.= Official Website =Hampshire County was constituted in 1662 from previously unorganized territory comprising the entire western part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. The county is named after the county Hampshire, in England. Adjacent Counties * Franklin County * Berkshire County * Hampden County * Worces...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. For Geni projects related to Suffolk County, please see: Community Projects City of Boston Early & Notable Families of Charlestown Early Families of Roxbury Original Settlers of Dedham Scots at the Braintree Furnace (1653) Braintree Iron Works (1643-1736)
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Boston, Mass. Official Website Boston , officially the City of Boston , is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km2)[10] and a po...
Knollwood Memorial Park was founded in 1898 by a group of people with a vision of a modern garden-style cemetery that would serve the residents of Eastern Massachusetts. Centrally located in an idyllic setting overlooking the Neponset Valley in Canton, Massachusetts, Knollwood’s location on 340 acres was carefully selected for it’s natural beauty. Although it is one of New England’s oldest and...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Worcester County was established on April 02, 1731 and was named after the city of Worcester, England. Adjacent Counties Cheshire County, NH Hillsborough County, NH Middlesex County Norfolk County Providence County, R.I. Hampden County Tolland County, Conn.
Finding and documenting all descendants of Edmund Rice. If you are a descendant of Edmund Rice, you are most welcome to join in the Edmund Rice autosomal DNA project. Edmund Rice autosomal DNA project Edmund Rice Association Famous descendants of Edmund Rice include: Steve Young, NFL football player Stillman Pond, Mormon Pioneer
The Pequot War was an armed conflict between 1634–1638 between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies who were aided by their Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes). Hundreds were killed; hundreds more were captured and sold into slavery to the West Indies. Other survivors were dispersed. At the end of the war, about ...