American educator, born in London, England, on the 25th of January 1614; died in Boston on the 21st of August 1708. He received a classical education, and in 1637 emigrated to America to secure “greater freedom of worship.” Landing in Connecticut, he became one of the founders of New Haven (1638); was schoolmaster there, and later, at Ipswich, eleven years; at Charleston, nine years, and at Boston, thirty-eight years, where Cotton Mather was one of his pupils. While at New Haven he wrote Accidence, a Short Introduction to the Latin Tongue, which passed through twenty editions and was a standard New England textbook for more than one hundred years. He also published a book entitled Scripture Prophecies Explained, giving his views in regard to the millennium. See also Cambridge History.
