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John Wheelwright (c. 1592–1679) was a Puritan clergyman in England and America, noted for being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian Controversy, and for subsequently establishing the town of Exeter, New Hampshire. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he graduated from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
John Wheelwright. 1897–1940. Poet John Wheelwright was born into a Boston Brahmin family—his ancestors included clergyman John Wheelwright and Massachusetts governor John Brooks. Wheelwright’s father was the celebrated Boston architect Edmund March Wheelwright, and his suicide, when John was in prep school, affected the young man profoundly.
John Wheelwright, c.1592–1679, American Puritan clergyman, founder of Exeter, N.H., b. Lincolnshire, England. He studied at Cambridge and was vicar (1623–33) of Bilsby. Suspended by Archbishop Laud on a charge of nonconformity, he emigrated to New England in 1636.
Jul 28, 2009 · John Wheelwright. His writings, including his Fast-day sermon, 1637; and his Mercurius americanus, 1645; with a paper upon the genuineness of the Indian deed of 1629, and a memoir. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
John Wheelwright. (1897—1940) Quick Reference. (1897–1940), American poet, born in Boston, educated at Harvard and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he trained for his career as an architect. In 1923 he travelled to ... From: Wheelwright, John in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English »
John Wheelwright was a Puritan minister who migrated to Massachusetts in 1636 and faced persecution for his views on grace and works. He was banished from the colony and founded Exeter, Maine, and later returned to England and Salisbury, Massachusetts.
John Wheelwright was minister at some place in Lincolnshire, where he was instrumental in the conversion of many souls, and highly esteemed among serious christians, but was silenced tor his nonconformity.
