biography
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| lived:
| (1586–1647)
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| biography:
| Nonconformist preacher, born in Marefield, Leicestershire, C England, UK. He became a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, then a Puritan lecturer at Chelmsford. In 1631 he went to Holland, then in 1633 emigrated to America and became pastor at Cambridge, MA. He moved with his congregation to Connecticut, and founded the town of Hartford (1636), where in 1638 he told the State Court that the people had the right to choose their own magistrates, an idea much advanced for the age and for which he is sometimes called ‘the father of American democracy’. |
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