Philemon Pormont is appointed the first headmaster of Boston Latin School.

He is succeeded by Daniel Maude (1636), Mr. Woodbridge (1644), Robert Woodmansey (1650), Benjamin Thompson (1667), Ezekiel Cheever (1670), Nathaniel Williams (1709), John Lovell (1738*), Samuel Hunt (1777), Samuel Thaxter (1805), William Bigelow (1806), Benjamin Gould (1813), Frederick Leverett (1828), Charles Dillaway (1831), Epes Dixwell (1837), Francis Gardner (?). Cornelia Kelley (1998*), Rachel Skerritt (2017*), and Jason Gallagher (2022*).