Woodworth, Samuel, 1784–1842, American author, b. Scituate, Mass. He edited (1823–24) the New York Mirror and was author of the song The Old Oaken Bucket. His comedy The Forest Rose (1825) was...

Angell, James Burrill, 1829–1916, American educator, editor, and diplomat, b. Scituate, R.I., grad. Brown, 1849, and studied abroad. He became professor of modern languages at Brown. Resigning...

Hopkins, Esek, 1718–1802, American Revolutionary naval hero, b. Scituate, R.I.; brother of Stephen Hopkins. He commanded a privateer in the French and Indian War, and in Dec., 1775, he was app...

Dunster, Henry, c.1612–1659, first president of Harvard, b. Lancashire, England, educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge (M.A., 1634). He emigrated to New England in 1640 and was almost at on...

Plymouth Colony, settlement made by the Pilgrims on the coast of Massachusetts in 1620. Previous attempts at colonization in America (1606, 1607–8) by the Plymouth Company, chartered in 1606 a...