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John Davenport

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Davenport 1597-1670, Puritan clergyman, one of the founders of New Haven, Conn., b. Coventry, England, educated at Merton and Magdalen colleges, Oxford. Starting as a Church of England cleric, Davenport turned more and more to nonconformity. As pastor of an influential London parish he fostered the Puritan cause and in 1633 had to flee to Holland. There he also got into theological troubles, and, after returning to England, he and Theophilus Eaton headed a party of Puritan colonists who sailed (1637) to New England. In 1638, Davenport led the colonists to a spot chosen by Eaton, and... Read more
Davenport, John
Davenport, John (1597–1670), Puritan . He was vicar of a London church and then co-pastor of the English church in Amsterdam. He sailed... Read more
John Davenport
...pastor of the New Haven church, and Eaton was chosen governor. After failing to prevent New Haven's union with the Connecticut colony, Davenport left in 1667 to lead the First Church in Boston. John Davenport John Davenport John Davenport Read more

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