Venn: Matric. sizar from MAGDALENE, Lent, 1620-1. S. of Richard (? 1566), V. of Gt Budworth, Cheshire. B.A. 1624-5; M.A. 1628. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Dec. 18; priest, Dec. 19, 1625. Went to New England, 1637, with his brother Theophilus, as pastor at New Haven, Connecticut; returned, 1640. Assistant to the Parliamentary commissioners of Cheshire. Afterwards a minister at Dukinfield, Cheshire. Died at Denton, Lancs., Jan. 9, 1664-5. Buried in the Chapel there. Brother of Nathaniel (1629-30) and Jonathan (1630-1). (D.N.B.; F.M.G., 1152; J. G. Bartlett.)