William Blackstone aka William Blaxton
b. March 5, 1595, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England
d. May 26, 1675, Lonsdale, Lincoln/Cumberland
Clergyman; first European settler in what is now Boston (1623), and later, he became Rhode Island's first settler as well (1635).
Blackstone was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1995.