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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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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...
John Eliot (1604-1690) was a pastor who worked among the Indians in New England for 58 years. He translated the Bible and other books into Indian languages, organized Indian villages, and fought for their rights and education.
John Eliot (1604-1690) was an early emigrant to America and translated the Bible into a Native American language. Early life. John Eliot was born at Widford, Hertfordshire in 1604, and arrived to study at Jesus College in 1618 when he was 14.
This turned by the servant of Christ, who is called John Eliot. The preparation and printing of Eliot's work was supported by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England , whose governor was the eminent scientist Robert Boyle .
