Notable People
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- Passengers on the maiden voyage of the Mayflower.
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- First Royal Governor of Massachusetts.
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- Author of Hardy Mums. With his son Roderick at the Bristol Nursery, he is responsible for the availability of hardy chrysanthemums in the United States.
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- Author of The Chrysanthemum Book and, with Robert E. Lee, Contremporary Perrenials. With his father Alexander, Jr. at the Bristol nursery, he is responsible for the availability of hardy chrysanthemums in the United States.
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- Banished from Boston, she went to Rhode Island and then Long Island. She was killed in an Indian uprising at Pelham Bay.
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- Known as the "Father of American Geography."
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- Noted artist and inventor.
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- Captain of the Syracuse University football team during the 1991-92 season.
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- Passsenger on the maiden voyage of the Mayflower.
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- Royal Governor of New Hampshire.
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- Mayor of Chicago.
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- Royal Lieutenant-Governor of New Hampshire.
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- Last Royal Governor of New Hampshire.
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- Also known as "Rynold the Saxon," he lived circa 1066.
- From him descended Jane Seymour, the mother of King Edward VI, and the wife of Lord Byron.
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- In 1338, he was appointed Bishopric of London. In that same year, he was elevated to Lord High Chancellor of England. He died in 1339, and the line was carried on through his brother.
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- From him descended Thomas Wentworth, the first Earl of Strafford (who was beheaded May 12, 1641) and subsequent Earls of Strafford, the Wentworths of Wentworth Castle, the Barons Raby, and the Viscounts Wentworth.