TO · PERPETUATE · THE · MEMORY
OF · FIVE · MEN · ASSOCIATED · WITH
THIS · TOWN · WHO · BECAME
GOVERNORS · OF · MASSACHUSETTS

- RICHARD · BELLINGHAM -
M ·P · FOR · BOSTON · IN · 1625
AND · RECORDER · 1625 - 1633
GOVERNOR · 1641 · 1654 · AND · 1665 - 1672
- THOMAS · DUDLEY -
STEWARD · TO · THE · EARL · OF · LINCOLN
GOVERNOR · 1634 · 1640 · 1645 · 1650
- SIMON · BRADSTREET -
SON - IN - LAW · OF THOMAS · DUDLEY
AND · HIS · SUCCESSOR · AS · STEWARD
GOVERNOR · 1679 - 1686 · 1689 - 1692
- JOHN · LEVERETT -
BAPTISED · IN · THIS · CHURCH · JULY 1616
GOVERNOR · 1673 - 1679
· AND ·
- FRANCIS · BERNARD -
DEPUTY · RECORDER · OF · BOSTON · 1754 - 8
THE · LAST · OF · THE · ROYAL · GOVERNORS
1760 - 1769