Founders
- Pilgrims, first settlers
- Elizabeth Poole, the foundress of Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1637; the first woman to have founded a town in the Americas.
- Benjamin Franklin, born in Boston, Massachusetts
- John Adams, born in Braintree, Massachusetts
- John Hancock, born in Braintree, Massachusetts
- Samuel Adams, born in Boston, Massachusetts
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Famous quotes containing the word founders:
“A spot whereon the founders lived and died
Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees,
Or gardens rich in memory glorified
Marriages, alliances, and families,
And every bride’s ambition satisfied.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
“It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)