The English
John EliotAs both a translator and an author, John Eliot played a role in the production of nearly all texts relating to colonist and native interactions in seventeenth-century New England.... [read more] |
Samuel GreenSamuel Green and his family had ventured from England to Cambridge, New England, by 1634.... [read more] |
Marmaduke JohnsonIn June 1660, Johnson arrived in Boston aboard the Prudent Mary and headed to Cambridge to begin working with Samuel Green.... [read more] |
Thomas & Experience MayhewThe Mayhew family is largely responsible for the colonization and Christianization of the island of Martha’s Vineyard.... [read more] |
Grindal RawsonGrindal Rawson was a classmate of Cotton Mather’s at Harvard College, where they both graduated in 1678. Rawson became reverend of the church at Mendon, Massachusetts... [read more] |
Roger WilliamsOrdained as a minister in the Church of England in 1629, Roger Williams made his way from England to Plymouth a year later.... [read more] |