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John Leverett (baptized 7 July 1616 – 16 March 1678/79) was an English colonial magistrate, merchant, soldier and the penultimate governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Born in England, he migrated to Massachusetts as a teenager.
John Leverett (August 25, 1662 – May 3, 1724) was an early Anglo-American lawyer, politician, educator, and President of Harvard College.
John Leverett (1662-1724) was the first lawyer and jurist to become Harvard College president. This collection contains his diaries, lectures, letters, and other documents related to his life and career.
LEVERETT, JOHN, official commander of the forts in Acadia, 1654–57; governor of Massachusetts 1673–79; b. 1616, in Boston, England; s. Of Thomas Leverett and Anne Fisher; d. 16 March 1678/79 ( o.s.). Leverett migrated to Massachusetts, with his parents, in 1633.
Leverett was the first lawyer and judge to hold the Harvard presidency. His major accomplishment as Harvard College president was to help transform Harvard from a divinity school to a more secular institution.
Sir John Leverett was a significant figure in the politics of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Great Britain during the latter half of the 17th century. He was a resident of lands in Boston’s old West End neighborhood (now Beacon Hill) on the North Slope.
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John Leverett (lĕv´ərĬt), 1616–79, American colonial governor, b. Boston, England. He went to Boston, Mass., with his father in 1633, but went back (1644) to England to serve in the parliamentary army in the English civil war.
