Nathaniel B. Shurtleff


Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, Sr. was an American politician, serving as the twentieth mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from January 6, 1868 to January 2, 1871.
Shurtleff, who had been defeated as the Know Nothing candidate for mayor in 1855 and as a Democrat in 1865 and 1866, was elected in 1867 as a Democrat.

Honors

Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1849. He was chosen to serve on the society's board of councilors from 1853 to 1874.

Books

Shurtleff is well known to genealogists and historians as the editor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony records and of part of the Plymouth Colony records.