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JOHN DAVENPORT

John Davenport was an English clergyman. He was born in 1597 and died in 1670. He emigrated to Boston in 1637. In 1638 he founded New Haven, of which colony for thirty years he was minister, and a chief member of the government. Since none except members of the church were burgesses, he had great power and influence.
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