Considered the earliest surviving post-mortem portrait in North America, this portrait is believed to depict Elizabeth Royall, daughter of Isaac Royall Jr. of Medford, Mass. at the time of her death around 1747. She is shown lying in bed in a nightgown, framed in blue curtains.

Paul Cuffee, born in 1759 to a free African father and Wampanoag mother, was one of the most influential black and Native American men of his time. He was a Quaker mariner and merchant, early abolitionist, and established the first racially integrated school in Westport, Mass.