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VENN : Matric. pens. from TRINITY, Easter, 1610; scholar from Westminster. S. of George, of Yardley-Bury, Herts. Bapt. there, Nov. 5, 1592. B.A. 1613-4; M.A. 1617; B.D. 1624. Fellow, 1614. Incorp. at Oxford, 1619. V. of St Michael's, Cambridge, 1626. V. of Ware, Herts., 1627-33; and of Marston St Laurence, 1633-7. Suspended and imprisoned for Nonconformity. Emigrated to New England, 1638. Minister at Plymouth, Mass., for three years; and at Scituate, 1641-54. President of Harvard College, 1654-71. Died at Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 19, 1671-2. (D.N.B.; J. G. Bartlett.)
SEE OXFORD DNB: Chauncy, Charles (bap. 1592, d. 1672), minister in America and college head