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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" [1] [2] [3] and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645.
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May 17, 2024 · John Eliot was a Puritan missionary to the Native Americans of Massachusetts Bay Colony whose translation of the Bible in the Algonquian language was the first Bible printed in North America. Educated in England, Eliot graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1622 and emigrated to Boston in
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John Eliot (1604-1690) was a pastor who worked among the Indians in New England for 58 years. He translated the Bible and other books into Indian languages, organized Indian villages, and fought for their rights and education.
Historians customarily date the beginning of the modern missionary movement in 1792, with William Carey's voyage to India. But a full 150 years earlier, Puritan John Eliot was evangelizing...
Jun 11, 2018 · John Eliot was a Puritan minister who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1631. He devoted his life to converting and educating Native Americans, and published a Bible in Algonquian in 1663.
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Baptized on August 5, 1604, John Eliot’s eighty-six years earned him respect and the legacy as the “Apostle to the Indians.” He was a Puritan who cared deeply for the Native Americans of New England—an unpopular stance in the colonies.
