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John Davenport (April 9, 1597 – May 30, 1670) was an English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony of New Haven . Early life. Coat of Arms of John Davenport. Born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England to a wealthy family, Davenport was educated at Oxford University.
John Davenport (born April 1597, Coventry, Warwickshire, Eng.—died c. March 15, 1670, Boston, Mass.) was a Puritan clergyman and cofounder of the New Haven Colony (now New Haven, Conn.).
Nov 4, 2020 · John Hooker and John Davenport. The beginnings of the New Haven Colony were very similar to the beginnings of the Connecticut Colony. Like Thomas Hooker, John Davenport was a popular Puritan minister who fled to Holland to escape persecution by the established Church of England.
May 29, 2018 · John Davenport is a middle-school history teacher and the author of several educational books for young readers, including Saladin, The U.S.-Mexico Border: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, and The Mason-Dixon Line, all of which focus on the history of North America.
Dec 1, 2013 · In this original and lucid study, Francis J. Bremer gives us the first modern biography of John Davenport (1597–1670), one of the brighter lights of Puritan New England, well known during his lifetime as a strong preacher, astute writer, and formative leader of the colony of New Haven.
John Davenport (1597-1670) John Davenport was a puritan clergyman whose career began in England, continued in the Netherlands, and reached its culmination in New England, where he was one of the founders of the New Haven colony.
Who was John Davenport? First of all, he was an Englishman. Like the other founders of colonial America he was born in England – in his case the city of Coventry in the midlands – raised there, and there learned the ideas that would shape his entire career.
