| WINTHROP | John ___, first governor of the Massachusetts bay colony |
| COD | Key commodity for the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| CAMBRIDGE | 1629 agreement in which English stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company pledged to resettle in New England |
| JINNAH | Muhammad Ali ___, first Governor-General of Pakistan from 1947-48 (6) |
| EGAN | First governor of the state of Alaska |
| HUTCHINSON | This Anne was kicked out of Massachusetts Bay Colony for antinomianism |
| SALEM | Village in Massachusetts Bay Colony that held a series of witch trials in 1692 and 1693 (5) |
| NOAMCHOMSKY | American linguist, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer who joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 |
| THOMASCOCHRANE | Admiral of the fleet, and first governor of Newfoundland; another admiral, an inspiration for Horatio Hornblower |
| BYRON | John ___, 1st Baron, the leader of Royalist forces against the Parliamentarians in the 1644 Battle of Nantwich during the First English Civil War (5) |
| JOHNRUTLEDGE | US statesman and jurist, the first Governor of South Carolina (4,8) |
| HOBSON | William ---, British naval officer and the first Governor of New Zealand (6) |
| ADAMS | Main author of the Massachusetts constitution |
| ELIZABETHI | First holder of the title Supreme Governor of the Church of England |
| UTAH | Mormon founder Brigham Young became the first governor of this territory - it didn't become a state |
| HANCOCK | First governor of Massachusetts |
| CARTERET | First governor of New Jersey |
| KIRKE | Sir David ___ (17th-century first Governor of Newfoundland) |
| BRIGHAMYOUNG | First governor of Utah |
| GOVERNOR | The title of Massachusetts Bay Colony's elected leader |
