Indian dictionary of national biography volume 17
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Eliot, John (1604-1690)
ELIOT, JOHN (1604–1690), styled 'the Indian Apostle' (T. Thorowgood, Jews in America, 1660, p. 24) and by Winslow 'the Indian evangelist,' was born either at Widford, Hertfordshire, where he was baptised on 6 Aug.
1604 or at Nazing, where his father lived (W. Winters, Memorials of the Pilgrim Fathers, 1882, p. 26).
Indian dictionary of national biography volume 17
He was the son of Bennett Eliot, a yeoman holding land in the parishes of Ware, Widford, Hunsdon, and Eastwick in the same county, who bequeathed by will, dated 5 Nov. 1621, 8l. of the profits of these lands for the maintenance of his son John at Cambridge University (ib.
pp. 39–42).
Indian dictionary of national biography volume 17 pdf
John Eliot entered as a pensioner at Jesus College, 20 March 1619, and took his degree in 1622. He was for some years usher in a school at Little Baddow, near Chelmsford, kept by the Rev. Thomas Hooker, afterwards (1633) pastor of the First Church at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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