Colonial governor of Massachusetts, born in Roxbury, MA, on the 23rd of September 1647. In 1675 he helped to negotiate a treaty with the Narragansett Indians. In 1682 he visited England on behalf of the colonists; in 1685 was appointed president of New England, and in 1687 chief justice of the supreme court. From 1690 to 1693 he was chief justice of New York, and governor of Massachusetts from 1702 to 1715. He died in Roxbury on the 2nd of April 1720.
