John Davenport papers 1624-1669

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John Davenport papers 1624-1669

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1072

The papers consist of photostatic copies of John Davenport letters collected by Isabel M. Calder and published in her Letters of John Davenport, Puritan Divine (1937).

0.25 linear foot

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351037

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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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...