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ogy and quickly became part of Puritan minister John Cotton’s inner circle. The Hutchinsons were persuaded by Cotton to emigrate from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. The colony had been recently estab-lished by John Winthrop and the Massachusetts Bay Company to be a Puritan utopia, a “shining city upon a hill.”
Biography of John Trapp (1601–1669): John Trapp (1601–1669), divine, son of Nicholas Trapp of Kempsey in Worcestershire, was born at Croome d’Abitot on 5 June 1601.
John Wilson was son of Rev. John Wilson, the first minister of the First Church in Boston, and grandson of Rev. William Wilson, D, D., prebendary of St. Paul's in London, whose wife was niece of Edmund Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury. He was born in London in Sept. 1621, came with his father to New-England on his second voyage hither. Dr.
Seventeenth-Century Puritan New England. John ... 1634 to follow their minister John ... John Wilson, who was the pastor of the congregation in ...
Soon she criticized the Puritan ministers as “under a covenant of works.” She declared that John Cotton was “under a covenant of grace” and that so were her followers and herself. She launched a vigorous movement to displace John Wilson as pastor of the Boston Church. She sought to rouse the members of other churches against their ...
Biography for Rev. John Wilson: WILSON, John, clergyman, born in Windsor, England, in 1588; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 7 August 1667. Young Wilson was educated at Eton and at Cambridge, where he was graduated about 1606.
Thomas Wilson (1563–1622) was a renowned divine, originating from Durham in 1563. He pursued his education at Queen’s College, Oxford, matriculating on 17 Nov. 1581 at 18 years of age.
