Born abt. 1604
Widford, Hertfordshire, England
Died 21 May 1690 (aged 85–86)
Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Occupation Puritan missionary, and religious teacher to American Indians
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. In 1660 he completed the enormous task of translating the Eliot Indian Bible into the Massachusett Indian language, producing more than two thousand completed copies.
*******
Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God (The "Eliot Indian Bible")
https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=54&pid=15
*******
John Eliot was born in Widford, Hertfordshire, England and lived at Nazeing as a boy. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge.[4] After college, he became assistant to Thomas Hooker at a private school in Little Baddow, Essex.[5] After Hooker was forced to flee to the Netherlands, Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arranging passage as chaplain on the ship Lyon and arriving on 3 November 1631. Eliot became minister and "teaching elder" at the First Church in Roxbury.[3]
From 1637 to 1638 Eliot participated in both the civil and church trials of Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy. Eliot disapproved of Hutchinson's views and actions, and was one of the two ministers representing Roxbury in the proceedings which led to her excommunication and exile.[6] In 1645, Eliot founded the Roxbury Latin School. He and fellow ministers Thomas Weld (also of Roxbury), Thomas Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard, and Richard Mather of Dorchester, are credited with editing the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in the British North American colonies (1640). From 1649 to 1674, Samuel Danforth assisted Eliot in his Roxbury ministry.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eliot_(missionary)
*******
Born abt. 1604
Widford, Hertfordshire, England
Died 21 May 1690 (aged 85–86)
Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Occupation Puritan missionary, and religious teacher to American Indians
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. In 1660 he completed the enormous task of translating the Eliot Indian Bible into the Massachusett Indian language, producing more than two thousand completed copies.
*******
Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God (The "Eliot Indian Bible")
https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=54&pid=15
*******
John Eliot was born in Widford, Hertfordshire, England and lived at Nazeing as a boy. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge.[4] After college, he became assistant to Thomas Hooker at a private school in Little Baddow, Essex.[5] After Hooker was forced to flee to the Netherlands, Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arranging passage as chaplain on the ship Lyon and arriving on 3 November 1631. Eliot became minister and "teaching elder" at the First Church in Roxbury.[3]
From 1637 to 1638 Eliot participated in both the civil and church trials of Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy. Eliot disapproved of Hutchinson's views and actions, and was one of the two ministers representing Roxbury in the proceedings which led to her excommunication and exile.[6] In 1645, Eliot founded the Roxbury Latin School. He and fellow ministers Thomas Weld (also of Roxbury), Thomas Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard, and Richard Mather of Dorchester, are credited with editing the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in the British North American colonies (1640). From 1649 to 1674, Samuel Danforth assisted Eliot in his Roxbury ministry.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eliot_(missionary)
*******
Inscription
HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF
JOHN ELIOT.
The
APOSTLE TO THER INDIANS
Ordained over the First Church Nov 1632
Died May 20, 1690, Aged LXXXVI.
-------
Also of
THOMAS WALTER.
Ordained Oct 19, 1718 Died Jan 10 1725
Aged XXIX
-------
NEHEMIAH WALTER.
Ordained Oct 17, 1688. Died Sept. 17, 1750
Aged LXXXVII.
-------
OLIVER PEABODY.
Ordained Nov. 7, 1750. Died May 29, 1752
Aged XXXII
-------
AMOS ADAMS.
Ordained Sept. 12, 1753. Died Oct. 5, 1773
Aged LIV.
-------
ELIPHALET PORTER.
Ordained Oct. 2, 1782. Died Dec. 7, 1783.
Aged LXXI.