Davenport, John

Davenport, John
born April 1597, Coventry, Warwickshire, Eng.
died с March 15, 1670, Boston, Mass.

British-American Puritan clergyman.

A vicar in London, he moved to Amsterdam in 1633 and served there as co-pastor of the English Church. In 1637 he left for America with Theophilus Eaton (с 1590–1658) and their followers. They founded a colony at Quinnipiac (New Haven) in 1638; Davenport became pastor of the New Haven church, and Eaton was chosen governor. After failing to prevent New Haven's union with the Connecticut colony, Davenport left in 1667 to lead the First Church in Boston.

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▪ Puritan clergyman
born April 1597, Coventry, Warwickshire, Eng.
died , c. March 15, 1670, Boston, Mass.

      Puritan clergyman and cofounder of the New Haven Colony (now New Haven, Conn.).

      Davenport was educated at the University of Oxford and later was elected vicar of the Church of St. Stephens in London. Because Holland was more hospitable to Puritans than was England, Davenport moved there in 1633 and became co-pastor of the English Church in Amsterdam. There Davenport quarreled with Dutch religious officials, and in 1637 he departed for America with his boyhood friend Theophilus Eaton (Eaton, Theophilus) and their followers from England. In June the group arrived in Boston but decided not to remain there. In April 1638 they founded a colony at Quinnipiac ( New Haven), Conn. Davenport became pastor of the New Haven church, and the freemen chose Eaton as governor of the new colony, in which church and state were closely aligned.

      Davenport maintained a prominent role in New Haven's civil and ecclesiastical affairs, and in 1661 he allowed two regicide judges of Charles I (William Goffe and Edward Whalley) to take refuge within the settlement. Davenport resisted the union of New Haven with the Connecticut colony, but when his efforts failed, he accepted an invitation in 1667 to become pastor of the First Church in Boston. Davenport's appointment was vigorously opposed by several church members, partly because of his hostility to the Half-Way Covenant and its provisions on baptism. He was eventually installed as pastor in December 1668, but the congregation split; the dissidents founded the Third Church of Boston.

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