John Eliot (missionary)
John Eliot (c. 1604 – 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. In 1660 he completed the enormous task of translating the Eliot Indian Bible into the Massachusett Indian language, producing more than two thousand completed copies.
The Reverend John Eliot | |
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| Born | 1604 Widford, Hertfordshire, England |
| Died | 21 May 1690 (aged 85–86) Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America |
| Occupation(s) | Puritan missionary, and religious teacher to American Indians |
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