The Puritan minister Increase Mather dismissed the word as bereft of power.

1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

" The Puritan minister began to embrace the sentiment that smallpox was an inevitability for anyone, both the good and the wicked, yet God had provided them with the means to save themselves.

Dartmouth was founded by Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister from Columbia, Connecticut, who had previously sought to establish a school to train Native Americans as missionaries.

Cotton Mather, influential New England Puritan minister, portrait by Peter Pelham.

* February 13 – Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister ( b. 1663 )

* February 27 – Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister ( b. 1653 )

* August 23 – Increase Mather, American Puritan minister ( b. 1639 )

* The Puritan minister Richard Baxter, ( born 12 November 1615 – died 8 December 1691 ) began his ministry in Kidderminster in April 1641 and spent the next 19 years in the town.

* Samuel Parris ( 1653 – 1720 ), Puritan minister during the Salem witch trials

* Thomas Tregosse, Puritan minister

* John Williams ( minister ) ( 1664 – 1729 ), New England Puritan minister who became famous for The Redeemed Captive, his account of his captivity by the Mohawk

* Richard Culmer, the infamous Puritan minister known locally as Blue Dick Culmer, was presented to the living but the people rejected him and his name-to this day-is still omitted from the role of incumbents in the church porch.

For the Puritan author and minister see Arthur Dent ( Puritan ).

Clyfton was a Puritan minister who believed that the Church of England ought to institute strict reforms to eliminate all vestiges of Catholic practices.

* John Russell ( clergyman ) ( 1626 – 1692 ), Puritan minister

* February 12-Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister ( born 1663 )

* February 12-Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ( died 1728 )

Buckingham, who continued in office as chief minister into the reign of James's son, Charles I, was responsible for a policy of war against Spain and France, and was assassinated by a Puritan fanatic, John Felton, in 1628 as he prepared an expedition to relieve the Huguenots of La Rochelle.

He then had a guardian named Downes who moved him to another private school at St Albans where he was much influenced by the Presbyterian minister Samuel Clarke ( not to be confused with Samuel Clarke, ( 1599 – 1683 ), the English clergyman and Puritan biographer ).

* John Norton ( Puritan divine ), author, minister at Ipswich 1636

He was a Puritan minister who was involved with the government of the colony, the administration of Harvard College, and most notoriously, the Salem witch trials.

Roger Morrice ( 1628 – 1702 ) was an English Puritan minister and political journalist.

It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.

It was said that among the many causes of anger Charles had against Birmingham was that one of the best sword makers of the day, a man named Robert Porter, who lived and made his blades in Worcestershire, but sold them in Birmingham, refused at any price to supply swords for " that man of blood " ( A Puritan nickname for King Charles ), or any of his adherents.

The town is named after John Winthrop ( 1587 – 1649 ), second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and an important English Puritan leader.

The town was named after Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire, where Rogers had served as pastor for twenty years before his suspension due to non-conformist Puritan beliefs.

Leavitt is a descendant of an old Massachusetts Puritan family, and a direct descendant of Dudley Leavitt, a Mormon pioneer named for his ancestor Thomas Dudley, the second colonial governor of Massachusetts.

Norton had joined in Sir John Cooper's denunciation of Arminianism in the 1628-29 parliament, and Norton chose a man with Puritan leanings named Fletcher as Cooper's tutor.

Two of the survivors from the Whydah-a carpenter named Thomas Davis, and another man also named Thomas, who had been pressed into service when their ships were captured by Bellamy-was captured by authorities and brought to trial ; however, possibly in part due to the intervention of the famous Puritan minister Cotton Mather, they were acquitted of all charges and spared the gallows.

John Mason Good was named after the Puritan clergyman and hymn writer John Mason ( 1645-1694 ), of whom his mother Sarah was a descendant.

As revealed in Blackadder II, he has at least three grandsons: one named Osric is kidnapped and his ransom not paid, another named Nathaniel marries a fanatical Puritan and holds the peerage of Whiteadder, and another one squanders the family fortune " on wine, women and amateur dramatics "; by the end of his life he ekes out a living doing humorous impressions of Anne of Cleves.

An African slave named Onesimus taught the idea to Cotton Mather, the influential New England Puritan minister.

The small group of Puritan settlers, led by a man named William Sayle, searched for a place in which they could freely practice their faith.

The colony was named in honor of Puritan Lords Saye, or William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele and Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, prominent Parliamentarians and holders of the colony's land grants.

In Bermuda, an 80-year-old Puritan Bermudian colonist, Colonel William Sayle, was named governor of Carolina.

Neale was named after the Puritan cleric and hymn writer John Mason ( 1645 – 94 ), of whom his mother Susanna was a descendant.

Notable subplots included Jughead being stalked by a homicidal " limping man ", Betty being possessed by a Puritan witch named Felicity Goodbody, and Betty's uncle Draco, a vampire ( who never appeared in any other stories ) being hunted by a vampire-hunting count.

In 1630, aboard the ship Arbella, Puritan preacher John Winthrop delivered his famous sermon Shining city upon a hill.

Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.

He was the son of Increase Mather, and grandson of both John Cotton and Richard Mather, all also prominent Puritan ministers.

Many who have no love for Puritan doctrine, nor sympathy with Puritan experience, have appreciated the pathos and beauty of his writings, and his Looking to Jesus long held its own in popular appreciation with the writings of John Bunyan.

* 1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman ( b. 1585 )

Gallery of famous 17th-century Puritan theologians: Thomas Gouge, William Bridge, Thomas Manton, John Flavel, Richard Sibbes, Stephen Charnock, William Bates ( Puritan ) | William Bates, John Owen ( theologian ) | John Owen, John Howe ( Puritan ) | John Howe, Richard Baxter.

Various strands of Calvinist thought of the 17th century were taken up by different parts of the Puritan movement, and in particular Amyraldism was adopted by some influential figures ( John Davenant, Samuel Ward, and to some extent Richard Baxter ).

Puritan millennialism has been placed in the broader context of European Reformed views on the millennium and interpretation of Biblical prophecy, for which representative figures of the period were Johannes Piscator, Thomas Brightman, Joseph Mede, Johannes Heinrich Alsted, and John Amos Comenius.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

* May 21 – John Eliot, English Puritan missionary ( b. 1604 )