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About Us > Church History > PARISHONERS Prominent Parishioners
| Samuel Skelton |
The Church's first pastor (1629-1634). |
| Francis Higginson |
The author of the Church's Covenant and its first teacher (1629-1630) |
| Roger Williams |
Founder of the First Baptist Church in America; third minister of this church in 1635. |
| Hugh Peter |
The Church's fourth minister (1636-1641) return to England and became chaplain to Oliver Cromwell and was hanged, drawn and quartered for complicity in the death of King Charles I. |
| Rebecca Nurse & Giles Cory |
Two of the victims of the witchcraft hysteria of 1692, were members of this Church. |
Other notables include:
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
And the Hawthorne family |
| Jones Very |
Transcendentalist |
| Lincoln F. Bingham |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts |
| Arthur Foote |
Composer |
| Edward Sylvester Morse |
Biologist and authority on Japanese culture |
| Nathaniel Peabody |
Father of the Peabody sisters: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Mary Peabody Mann, and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. |
| Leverett Saltonstall |
First mayor of Salem |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland |
American Consul at Cardiff |
| Henry K. Oliver |
Organist and composer |
| Elizabeth Peabody |
Author, editor, publisher, educator, founder of American kindergartens,
Transcendentalist |
| Mary Peabody Mann |
Educator, author, wife of Horace Mann |
| Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne |
Artist, author, educator, wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Susan Burley |
Literary patron (including Nathaniel Hawthorne's),
salon/"Conversations" hostess, Transcendentalist |
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