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Welde, Thomas 1590-1662

Author; born in England, presumably in 1590; graduated at Cambridge University in 1613; was ordained in the Established Church, but owing to his Puritan belief sailed for Boston in 1632; and became minister of the first church in Roxbury, in July of that year. In the following November John Eliot was made his associate. He was prominent in arousing opposition to Anne Hutchinson and her teachings, and was active in her trial. He returned to [304] England in 1641. He was the author of A short story of the rise, reign, and ruin of the Antinomians, Familists, and Libertines that infested the churches of New England; Antinomians and Familists condemned; and joint author of The perfect Pharisee under monkish holiness (written against the Quakers), etc. He died in England, March 23, 1662.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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