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Venn: Adm. pens, at Emmanuel, June 4, 1613. S. of John, merchant, of Boston, Lincs. (Mayor of Boston, 1600 and 1608). Bapt. there, Nov. 21, 1597. Matric. 1613; B.A. 1616-7; M.A. 1620. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) May 3; priest. May 4, 1621. Chaplain to Sir Roger Towiishend, Bart. and Sir Nathaniel Bacon, Knt. C. at Lynn, Norfolk, c. 1621-4. R. of Skirbeck, Lincs., 1625-36. Went to Boston, New England, Apr. 1636, and thence to Saugus (afterwards Lynn), Mass. Minister at Lynn, 1636-79. Married, as his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Oliver St John, of Keysoe, Beds., at Boston, Lines., Aug. 6, 1629. Died Dec. 11, 1679, aged 82, at Lynn, Mass. Father of John (1669). {Emmanuel Coll. Hist., 48, Felt, 257; J. G. Bartlett.)