John Davenport papers 1638-1693

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John Davenport papers 1638-1693

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/731

John Davenport (1597-1670) was a Congregational clergyman in colonial New England. Collection consists of letters of Davenport to John Winthrop, drafts of letters by Winthrop, and other letters and documents relating to the colony of Connecticut.

1.5 linear foot (1 v.)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6314840

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Winthrop, John, 1606-1676

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Eldest son of John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was an avid chemist, practical scientist, and physician. Also governor of Connecticutt colony. From the description of Medical notebooks from the Winthrop papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1657-1669. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 136326566 Governor of Connecticut; eldest son of John Winthrop (1588-1649), first governor of Massachusetts Bay; after coming to Amer...

Davenport, John, 1597-1670

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John Davenport (1597-1669/70) was reared in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He was curate of St. Lawrence Jewry in London from 1619 to 1624, and graduated from Oxford in 1625. Davenport served as vicar of St. Stephen's parish in London from 1625 to 1633. In that year he fled to Amsterdam, Holland, when his increasingly Puritan views incurred the disfavor of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud (1573-1645). In 1637, Davenport arrived in Boston, Mass., and became first minister of the N...