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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 Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645.
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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.
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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Puritan minister and pioneer missionary among Native Americans. Eliot left England, the land of his birth, in 1631 as a young Puritan pastor. He worked in Boston for a year, then established a church five miles away in Roxbury, where he remained for 58 years, until his death.
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 Native...
Jun 11, 2018 · John Eliot. John Eliot (1604-1690), English-born clergyman of the first New England generation and missionary to the Massachusetts Native Americans, translated the Bible and other books into the Algonquian tongue. John Eliot's baptismal record, dated Aug. 5, 1604, is preserved in the church of St. John the Baptist in Widford, Hertfordshire.
Aug 15, 2021 · Eliot, John. A late and further manifestation of the progress of. the gospel amongst the Indians in New-England declaring. their constant love and zeal to the truth. (1665). MS Word (*.docx); Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf); Web (*.html) Eliot, John, Richard Mather and Thomas Mayhew.
John Eliot helped guide the church during the dangerous times of the balky Roger Williams and the winsome Anne Hutchinson. He was one of the leaders at all of the early synods that helped to farm Congregational polity. At these synods, he was deeply involved in the Half-Way Covenant controversy.
