biography
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| lived:
| (1597–1670)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, writer, and colonist, born in Coventry, West Midlands, C England, UK. He became an Anglican minister (1625) but was attracted to the Puritan faith and became a full dissenter by 1632. He resigned his post and preached briefly in Holland before emigrating to Boston (1637). With his boyhood friend, Theophilus Eaton, he founded the New Haven Colony (1638) and was the pastor of the church there (1638–67). He sheltered the English regicides, Edward Whalley and William Goffe, in 1661. He opposed the Half-Way Covenant and the merging of New Haven into the Connecticut colony, and left for Boston (1667), where he was briefly the pastor of the First Church there. |
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