William Stoughton (1631 - July 7, 1701) was a colonial magistrate and administrator in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

Administrators complained of constant in-fighting among the population, which filed many petty civil suits with colonial magistrates.

Wait Winthrop (27 February 1641/2 - 7 November 1717) was a colonial magistrate, military officer, and politician of New England.

Simon Bradstreet (baptized March 18, 1603/4 - March 27, 1697) was a colonial magistrate, businessman, diplomat, and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Hobson also sent a ship, the HMS Britomart, on board which were colonial magistrates.

John Leverett, colonial magistrate (d. 1679)

Richard Bellingham, colonial magistrate (died 1672)

His last published work, The Laws of the Province of South Carolina (1736), included a collection of provincial laws during his time as colonial magistrate.

Thomas Dudley (12 October 1576 - 31 July 1653) was a colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

When bishops or colonial magistrates interfered or tried to "reform" such activities the local people sometimes rebelled violently in support of tradition, frequently led by their own parish priests.