The Reverend John White (1575-1648) was an Anglican priest who supported the Puritan's desires for freedom of worship. He was instrumental in obtaining a charter in 1628 for the New England Company, and was granted a Royal Charter on March 4, 1629 and became the Massachusetts Bay Company. He was thus played a key role in the Great Migration and the settling of Massachusetts and Connecticut.

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  • The Reverend John White (1575-1648) was an Anglican priest who supported the Puritan's desires for freedom of worship. He was instrumental in obtaining a charter in 1628 for the New England Company, and was granted a Royal Charter on March 4, 1629 and became the Massachusetts Bay Company. He was thus played a key role in the Great Migration and the settling of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He personally recruited emigrants the western counties of Dorset, Somerset and Devon, who set sail as an organized church aboard the Mary and John. White made many trips to London from Dorchester, working hard to obtain a patent in 1628 for lands between the parallel lines three miles south of the Charles River to three miles north of the Merrimack River, and all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific—though they had no idea of the extent of the land mass. He obtained the sponsorship of wealthy London merchants for a new colony in the New World. Concerned about the legality of conflicting land claims given to several companies to the still little known territories of the New World, the New England Company sought and was granted a Royal Charter on March 4, 1629, becoming the Massachusetts Bay Company. This charter enabled John Winthrop to hire a fleet of what would eventually comprise eleven ships, later called the Winthrop Fleet, to bring a new wave of Puritan emigrants to the New World. In the previous 10 years, only about 500 Puritan colonists had established a foothold in the New World. The Mary and John was the first, carrying 140 people from the West Counties, including Dorset, Somerset and Devon, all personally recruited by White. On June 1630 they landed and founded the settlement of Dorchester, Massachusetts. The eleven ships eventually transported about 700 colonists to the New World, the lead force of an eventual fleet that from 1630–1640 carried about 10,000 emigrants to the New World in what became known as the Great Migration. While supportive of the Puritans and opposed to the High Church policies of Archbishop William Laud, White never went to America. When the English Civil War broke out, Dorchester, England declared itself on the side of Parliament, but it surrendered to the Royalists without a fight in 1643. John White fled to London, and though he returned after Oliver Cromwell's victory in 1646, he had lost influence and died in 1648.
  • John White war ein anglikanischer Geistlicher. Obwohl er sich selbst mit offener Kritik an der Amtskirche zurückhielt, unterstützte er den Nonkonformismus der Puritaner, indem er sich für ihre Auswanderung nach Neuengland einsetzte. Durch seine Bestrebungen leistete er einen wesentlichen Beitrag für die Besiedelung und Kolonialisierung Neuenglands.
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  • 1648 (xsd:integer)
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  • Dorchester, Dorset, England
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  • Persuaded Charles I to grant a royal charter to the Massachusetts Bay Company for a new colony in the New World
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  • John White
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  • The Reverend John White (1575-1648) was an Anglican priest who supported the Puritan's desires for freedom of worship. He was instrumental in obtaining a charter in 1628 for the New England Company, and was granted a Royal Charter on March 4, 1629 and became the Massachusetts Bay Company. He was thus played a key role in the Great Migration and the settling of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
  • John White war ein anglikanischer Geistlicher. Obwohl er sich selbst mit offener Kritik an der Amtskirche zurückhielt, unterstützte er den Nonkonformismus der Puritaner, indem er sich für ihre Auswanderung nach Neuengland einsetzte. Durch seine Bestrebungen leistete er einen wesentlichen Beitrag für die Besiedelung und Kolonialisierung Neuenglands.
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  • John White (minister)
  • John White (Pastor)
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  • John White
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