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    John Wilson (c. 1588 – 1667) was a Puritan clergyman in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the minister of the First Church of Boston from its...
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  • Minster, 1624–1634 John Wilson (Puritan minister) (1591–1667), Puritan minister of the Boston Church in Massachusetts John Wilson (Scottish missionary)...
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    preacher when he accepted the position of minister at St. Botolph's Church, Boston, in Lincolnshire, in 1612. As a Puritan, he wanted to do away with the ceremony...
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    following their Puritan minister John Cotton. Cotton became the teacher of the Boston church, working alongside its pastor John Wilson, and Hutchinson...
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    Henry Whitfield (c.1590-c.1657) was a Puritan minister who was a founder of Guilford, Connecticut and the first pastor there. His house, the Henry Whitfield...
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    Richard Mather John Maynard (1604–1690) John Mayo (minister) Joseph Mede Walter Mildmay John Milton John More Matthew Newcomen John Norton (Puritan divine) Nicholas...
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  • Francis Higginson (category 17th-century New England Puritan ministers)
    Francis Higginson (1588–1630) was an early Puritan minister in Colonial New England, and the first minister of Salem, Massachusetts. He was an ancestor...
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    John Davenport (April 9, 1597 – May 30, 1670) was an English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony of New Haven. Born in Coventry, Warwickshire...
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    John Eliot (c. 1604 – 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury...
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  • John Norton (May 6, 1606 – April 5, 1663) was a Puritan divine in England and Massachusetts. Norton was born at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England...
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    John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in Colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years...
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    disputed authorship, historically attributed to Puritan leader John Winthrop and possibly written by John Wilson or George Phillips. It is also known as "City...
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    American colonist and Puritan minister. Educated at Cambridge, he left England and emigrated to the American colonies during the Puritan Great Migration. Carter...
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    Half-Way Covenant (category New England Puritanism)
    the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s. The Puritan-controlled Congregational churches required evidence of a personal conversion...
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    Anne Hutchinson (category American Puritans)
    because Wilson was the chaplain of the expedition. Ministers worried that the bold stand of Hutchinson and her supporters began to threaten the "Puritan's holy...
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    Winthrop Fleet (category New England Puritanism)
    ships led by John Winthrop out of a total of 16 funded by the Massachusetts Bay Company which together carried between 700 and 1,000 Puritans plus livestock...
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  • John Oliver (c. 1616, died 1646) was a Puritan minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and one of the earliest graduates of Harvard College (class of...
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    Samuel Parris (category 18th-century New England Puritan ministers)
    Puritan minister in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Also a businessman and one-time plantation owner, he gained notoriety for being the minister of...
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    colony's Puritan congregations. The colonial leadership were prominent members of their congregations and regularly consulted with the local ministers on issues...
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    Cotton Mather (category 17th-century New England Puritan ministers)
    Cotton. His grandfathers were Richard Mather and John Cotton, both of them prominent Puritan ministers who had played major roles in the establishment...
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    Antinomian Controversy (category New England Puritanism)
    1638. It pitted most of the colony's ministers and magistrates against some adherents of Puritan minister John Cotton. The most notable Free Grace advocates...
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    Roger Williams (c. 1603 – March 1683) was an English-born New England Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became...
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    Richard Mather (category 17th-century New England Puritan ministers)
    Richard Mather (1596 – 22 April 1669) was a New England Puritan minister in colonial Boston. He was father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton...
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    by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells...
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    Tim; Pogrund, Gabriel (26 June 2021). "Matt Hancock: puritan-in-chief who became the (ex) minister for hypocrisy". The Sunday Times. Archived from the...
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    Daniel Neal (category Historians of Puritanism)
    Neal: The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Nonconformists. Hrsg. von Joshua Toulmin, durchgesehen und annotiert von John O. Choules. Harper & Brothers...
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  • Axmouth in Devon and was known as a Puritan. According to Anthony Wood, Jerom Turner, a well-known puritan minister, was his assistant there from about...
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    Mary Dyer (category Quaker ministers)
    William Dyer, there was a single minister, the Reverend John Wilson. In 1633, one of England's most noted Puritan clergymen, John Cotton, arrived in Boston and...
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    John Clarke (October 1609 – 20 April 1676) was a physician, politician, and Baptist minister, who was co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence...
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    accept conditional subscriptions from defiant ministers. In the Parliaments of 1584 and 1586, the Puritans attempted to push through legislation that would...
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