New England clergyman, born in England in 1588. He was a Puritan preacher of great influence in Leicester, England. In 1628 he was invited by the Massachusetts Bay Company to accompany its expedition to New England. He arrived at Salem on June 29, 1629, and was soon after chosen teacher of the congregation. He drew up a confession of faith, which was assented to by thirty persons. During the ensuing winter he was attacked by a fever, which disabled him and finally caused his death. He wrote New England’s Plantation: or, A Short Description of the Commodities of that Country (1630). He died in Salem, MA, in 1630.
