Growing up, I had no idea I had Colonial American ancestors on both my parents’ sides. My mother’s colonial ancestors settled in the South, from the Carolinas to Georgia. My father’s ancestors were YANKEES!

These are all ancestors of my father who settled either in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Plymouth Colony, the Rhode Island Plantation Colony, or they are the ancestor of ancestors who settled there, AND they each have a Wikipedia Article:

William Baulston (1601-1679) (father’s 9x great-grandfather)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Baulston

William Baulston (c.1605—c.1678) was a colonial New England innkeeper who was active in the civil and military affairs of both the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was a founding settler of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, was continuously elected to the highest positions in the colony, and was one of the ten Assistants named in the Rhode Island Royal Charter.

My ancestor, Elizabeth Baulstone, is mentioned in the article.

John Coggeshall (1599-1647) (father’s 9x great-grandfather)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coggeshall

John Coggeshall Sr. (2 December 1599 – 27 November 1647) was a British colonial statesman who was one of the founders of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the first President of all four towns in the Colony. He was a successful silk merchant in Essex, England, but he emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1632 and quickly assumed a number of roles in the colonial government. In the mid-1630s, he became a supporter of dissident minister John Wheelwright and of Anne Hutchinson. Hutchinson was tried as a heretic in 1637, and Coggeshall was one of three deputies who voted for her acquittal. She was banished from the colony in 1638, and the three deputies who voted for her acquittal were also compelled to leave. Before leaving Boston, Coggeshall and many other Hutchinson supporters signed the Portsmouth Compact in March 1638 agreeing to form a government based on the individual consent of the inhabitants. They then established the settlement of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island (called Rhode Island at the time), one of the four towns comprising the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

John Coggeshall, Jr. (c.1624-1708) (father’s 8x great-grandfather)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coggeshall_Jr.

John Coggeshall Jr. (c. 1624 – 1 October 1708) was a deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Henry Timberlake (1570 – 1625) (father’s 10x great-grandfather)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Timberlake_(merchant_adventurer)

(Henry did not settle in New England; however, his grandson, also named Henry Timberlake, did settle in Rhode Island in the 1640s)

Henry Timberlake (1570 – 1625) was an English merchant and member of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London, a trading guild founded in the early 15th century. Timberlake was born in 1570 and eventually acquired enough capital to join the guild sometime before 1601. In addition to his business relationships, Timberlake became known for his travels in North Africa, Egypt, and Jerusalem in 1601, which he recounted and published in 1603. Accounts of his travels in Palestine and the Levant proved popular in England and were subsequently reprinted in several editions.

Timberlake later traveled to the English colonies in the Americas, where he purchased land in Virginia and Bermuda. He subsequently returned to England, where he died in 1625.

Dr. Francis Anthony (1550-1623) (father’s 10x great-grandfather)

(Francis Anthony also did not settle in New England; nevertheless, his grandson, John II Anthony, settled in Rhode Island. Distant cousin, Susan B. Anthony, is also a descendent of the infamous Elizabethan quack Dr. Francis Anthony.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Anthony

Francis Anthony (16 April 1550 – 26 May 1623) was a 16th-century physician and chemist. His father, Derrick Anthony, was a goldsmith in London, employed in the jewel office of Queen Elizabeth. He attended the University of Cambridge, receiving a master of arts degree in 1574. He studied the theory and practice of chemistry, leaving Cambridge at the age of 40. In 1598, he sent abroad his first treatise concerning the excellency of a medicine drawn from gold.

Both he and his son, John, made a fortune selling a quack medicinal potion called “Aurum Potabile” or “Drinkable Gold,”

His son, John Anthony (physician), my father’s 9x great-grandfather, also has a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_(physician)

William Chase (1595-1659) (father’s 9x great-grandfather)

One of my ancestors did not rate a Wikipedia article. His name was William Chase. His occupation was housewright, and he arrived in Boston in 1630 with what was called the Winthrop Fleet. He later became constable of Yarmouth in the Plymouth Colony.

Here is an article on the Winthrop Fleet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winthrop_Fleet

I found another one. Philip Sherman was one of the signers of the Portsmouth Compact.
His daughter Hannah married William Chase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sherman_%28settler%29?wprov=sfla1