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John Eliot (Puritan missionary and translator)

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Eliot, John
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Date of birth
1604-08-05
Place of birth
Hertfordshire
Date of death
1690-05-21
Place of death
Roxbury

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John Eliot (c. 1604 – 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to Native Americans who some called "the apostle to the Indians", and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. In 1660 he completed the enormous task of translating the Eliot Indian Bible into the Massachusett language, producing more than two thousand completed copies.

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0000000080838946
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL422812A
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4952352
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Q187818

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