Simon Bradstreet
✓ Source-basedstableLast governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony; husband of poet Anne Bradstreet
PoliticiansLived 1603 to 1697 · aged 94
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Simon Bradstreet was a New England merchant, politician and colonial administrator who served as the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Arriving in Massachusetts on the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, Bradstreet was almost constantly involved in the politics of the colony but became its governor only in 1679.
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![This house (1930s photograph), now located in North Andover, Massachusetts, was thought for many years to belong to the Bradstreets. In the 20th century it was found to have been built in 1715, and is now called the Parson Barnard House.[25]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Governor_Simon_Bradstreet_House_Andover.jpg/1280px-Governor_Simon_Bradstreet_House_Andover.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
This house (1930s photograph), now located in North Andover, Massachusetts, was thought for many years to belong to the Bradstreets. In the 20th century it was found to have been built in 1715, and is now called the Parson Barnard House.[25]
Bradstreet's Salem mansion
19th century depiction of the arrest of Sir Edmund Andros
Bradstreet's tomb in SalemIn their orbit 1
Politicians born in the 1600s 6
About this person
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
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Lived 1603 to 1697 · aged 94
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