biography
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Wigglesworth, Michael
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1631–1705)
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| biography:
| Protestant clergyman and poet, born in Yorkshire, N England, UK. He emigrated to Massachusetts as a boy, graduated from Harvard (1751), and was a fellow and tutor at Harvard before being ordained in Malden, MA (1656). His epic poem ‘Day of Doom’ (1662) has been described as conservative Calvinist theology in readable form, and it was an early American best-seller. He continued his pastorate in Malden, and also practised medicine there to the end of his life. |
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