John Oxenbridge
John Oxenbridge (30 January 1608 – 28 December 1674) was an English Nonconformist divine, who emigrated to New England.
Life
He was born at
He began to preach, with a similar disregard for constituted authority. His wife being a scholar in the profound points of theology, he commonly got her opinion upon a text before he preached it.
In 1653 he was made a commissioner with responsibility for the Bermudas.
In 1660 Oxenbridge was ejected from Eton. He returned to his preaching at Berwick-on-Tweed, but was expelled by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. He then spent some time in Surinam[7] and Barbados. He married his third wife, Susanna, after November 1666, and probably at Barbados, where he had met her.[3]
In 1670, he settled at
Works
A Double Watch-Word or, The Duty of Watching, and Watching to Duty (1661). A Quickening Word (1670). New England Freemen Warned and Warmed (1673). [9][10][11]
Family
His sister Elizabeth married Oliver St John, as his second wife.[5] His daughter Theodora married Peter Thacher (1651-1727).[12]
Notes
- ^ "Oxenbridge, John (OKSG625J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ a b c d e f Cooper, Thompson (1895). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "The seventeenth century: Religious Life after 1642 | British History Online".
- ^ a b Nicholas Murray, Andrew Marvell: World Enough and Time, pp. 77-81.
- ^ "Online text". Archived from the original on 30 December 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2008.
- ^ "Pioneers of Cocoa and Vanilla".
- ^ "Boston: A Guide Book - Section I".
- ^ Daniel S. Burt, The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times (2004), p. 25.
- ^ "Richard J. Ross | the Career of Puritan Jurisprudence | Law and History Review, 26.2 | the History Cooperative". Archived from the original on 11 April 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2008.
- ^ "John Oxenbridge | Digital Puritan Press".
- ^ "Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Thacher".
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Oxenbridge, John". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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