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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 (born 1604, Widford, Hertfordshire, England—died May 21, 1690, Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony [now in Massachusetts, U.S.]) 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.
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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...
Apr 7, 2024 · Sir John Eliot (born April 11, 1592, St. Germans, Cornwall, Eng.—died Nov. 28, 1632, London) was an English Puritan and Parliamentarian who, with his brilliant oratory, played a leading role in the early conflicts between King Charles I and Parliament. His death during his imprisonment for opposing the crown made him a martyr to the ...
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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.
Jun 11, 2018 · It is "absolutely necessary to carry on civility with religion [for] praying Indians." John Eliot. J ohn Eliot was a Puritan (one who practices strict moral and spiritual codes) missionary known as "the Indian evangelist," or "the Indian Apostle," who devoted his life to converting Native Americans to Christianity.
