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Wilson, John 1588-1667

Clergyman; born in Windsor, England, in 1588; ordained in the Church of England; emigrated to the United States with the Massachusetts colony in 1630, landing at Salem, and settled in Charlestown, where he organized a church and was ordained its pastor in 1632. He was chaplain of a regiment sent from Connecticut against the Pequod Indians in 1636, and was associated with John Eliot in his missionary labors among the Indians. He died in Boston, Mass., Aug. 7, 1667. [406]

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