Notable People Associated With First Church
- John Wilson (pastor 1632-1667; d.1667)
- John Cotton (pastor 1633-1652)
- John Winthrop, founder and governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
- John Norton (pastor 1656-1663)
- John Davenport (pastor 1668-1670)
- James Allen (pastor 1668-1710; d.1710)
- John Oxenbridge (pastor 1670-1674)
- Joshua Moodey (pastor 1684-1692; d.1697)
- John Bailey (pastor 1693-1697; d.1697)
- Benjamin Wadsworth (pastor 1696-1737)
- Thomas Bridge (pastor 1705-1715; d.1715)
- Thomas Foxcroft (pastor 1717-1769)
- Charles Chauncy (pastor 1727-1787)
- John Clarke (pastor 1778-1798)
- William Emerson (pastor 1799-1811)
- John Lovejoy Abbott (pastor 1813-1814)
- Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham (pastor 1815-1850)
- Sophia Henrietta Emma Hewitt (music director 1815-17(?), daughter of James Hewitt
- Charles Zeuner (music director 1839-?)
- Lucien H Southard (music director 1848-?)
- Rufus Ellis (pastor 1853-ca.1885; d.1885)
- Whitney Eugene Thayer (music director 1869-1875)
- Arthur Foote (music director 1878-1910)
- Charles Edwards Park (minister 1906-1946, emeritus 1946-1962)
- Rhys Williams (minister 1960-2000)
- Stephen Kendrick (minister 2001–present)
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