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Venn: Adm. sizar at Sidney, Apr. 28, 1611. S. of Robert, of Cumberworth and Saleby, Lincs. B. 1594. Matric. 1611; B.A. 1614-5; M.A. 1618. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Dec. 19; priest, Dec. 20, 1619. V. of Bilsby, Lincs., 1623-33; suspended for nonconformity. Preacher at Belleau till silenced. Went to New England, 1636; arrived at Boston, May 26, 1636. Admitted to the Boston Church, June 12, 1636. Associated with the Hutchinsonian party whose Antinomian sympathies were exciting strong opposition. Pastor of a church at Mount Wollaston (New Quincy), Mass., 1636. As the result of a sermon preached in Boston, he was convicted of sedition and sentenced to banishment. Mar. 1636-7; sentence revoked, 1644. Went with a party of friends to New Hampshire and founded Exeter, N.H.; pastor there, 1638-42. Removed to Wells, Me., 1643. Invited to the ministry of Hampton, N.H., 1647; installed pastor there, 1647. Went to England, 1656; remained there till 1662; part of the time the guest of Sir Henry Vane, former Governor of Mass. Returned to New England, 1662. Pastor of Salisbury, Mass., 1662-79. Married (i) Mary, dau. of Thomas Storre, V. of Bilsby, Lincs.; (2) Mary, dau. of Edward Hutchinson, of Alford, Lincs. Author, 'Mercurius Americanus'. Died at Salisbury, Mass., Nov. 15, 1679. Perhaps father of the next. {Felt, 257; J. G. Bartlett.)