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colonial American ministers and important lay-leaders. The majority of people in this list were mainstream Puritans, adhering strictly to the doctrine of Predestination. The more moderate ones, who tended towards Arminianism
, have the label "Arminian" behind their names.
A
B
- Robert Baillie
- John Ball
- Henry Barrowe
- Richard Baxter
- Thomas Baylie
- Lewis Bayly
- Richard Bernard
- Robert Bolton
- Samuel Bolton
- John Bond (Puritan)
- Thomas Boston
- Theophilus Brabourne
- William Bradford
- William Bradshaw
- Anne Bradstreet
- William Bridge
- John Brinsley the elder
- Thomas Brooks (Puritan)
- Hugh Broughton
- Robert Browne
- John Bunyan
- Peter Bulkley
- Anthony Burges
- Cornelius Burgess
- Jeremiah Burroughs
- Henry Burton
- Nicholas Byfield
- Richard Byfield
C
- Edmund Calamy
- Richard Capel
- Thomas Carter
- Thomas Cartwright
- Joseph Caryl
- Thomas Case
- Daniel Cawdrey
- Thomas Cawton
- Laurence Chaderton
- William Chaderton
- Stephen Charnock
- Francis Cheynell
- Thomas Coleman
- Edward Corbet
- John Cotton
- Miles Coverdale
- Oliver Cromwell
D
- Thomas Danforth
- John Darrell
- John Davenport
- Arthur Dent
- John Dod
- Philip Doddridge
- Thomas Doolittle
- John Downame
- Calybute Downing
- Thomas Dudley
- John Dury
E
- Theophilus Eaton
- Jonathan Edwards, American heir of the Puritans who is often listed with them
- Stephen Egerrton
F
- Humphrey Fenn
- John Field
- William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
- John Flavel
- John Foxe
- William Fulke
G
- Thomas Gataker
- Anthony Gilby
- George Gillespie
- Bernard Gilpin
- Christopher Goodman
- Thomas Goodwin
- William Gouge
- Andrew Gray
- Richard Greenham
- William Greenhill
- John Greenwood
- William Guthrie
- William Gurnall
H
- William Hagar
- Edward Hake
- Robert Harris
- John Harvard
- Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
- Thomas Hastings (colonist)
- Alexander Henderson
- Matthew Henry
- Philip Henry
- Charles Herle
- Richard Heyrick
- Gasper Hickes
- Francis Higginson
- Arthur Hildersham
- Robert Hill (clergyman)
- Thomas Hooker
- John Howe
- Joshua Hoyle
- Laurence Humphrey
- Anne Hutchinson
I
J
- James Janeway
- Francis Johnson
L
- John Lathrop
- Edward Leigh
- Alexander Leighton
- John Ley
- John Lightfoot
- Morgan Llwyd (Arminian)
- Christopher Love
M
- Thomas Manton
- Francis Marbury
- Stephen Marshall
- Walter Marshall (Puritan)
- Cotton Mather
- Increase Mather
- Richard Mather
- John Maynard (1604–1690)
- John Mayo (minister)
- Joseph Mede
- Walter Mildmay
- John Milton
- John More
N
- Matthew Newcomen
- John Norton (Puritan divine)
- Nicholas Noyes
- Philip Nye
O
P
- Herbert Palmer
- Robert Parker
- Thomas Parker
- John Penry
- William Perkins
- Andrew Perne
- William Phelps
- George Phillips (Watertown)
- Matthew Poole
- John Preston
R
- John Rainolds
- Mary Rowlandson
- Edward Reynolds
- Edmund Rice
- Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
- John Robinson
- John Rogers
- Rev. John Russell, Jr of Hadley, MA
- Samuel Rutherford
S
- Thomas Sampson
- Henry Scudder
- Lazarus Seaman
- Obadiah Sedgwick
- Jeremiah Shepard
- Thomas Shepard
- Richard Sibbes
- Sidrach Simpson
- Peter Smart
- William Spurstowe
- Edmund Staunton
- Peter Sterry
- Solomon Stoddard
- Samuel Stone
- Elder John Strong
T
- Edward Taylor
- Thomas Taylor (priest, 1576–1633)
- James Temple
- Robert Titus
- Walter Travers
- Thomas Tregosse
- William Twisse
U
- John Udal
- Nicholas Upsall
V
- Richard Vines
- Thomas Vincent
W
- George Walker
- Nehemiah Wallington
- John Wallis
- Nathaniel Ward
- Samuel Ward (minister)
- Samuel Ward (scholar)
- Thomas Watson
- Isaac Watts
- Thomas Wellman
- Paul Wentworth
- Peter Wentworth
- John Wheelwright
- Jeremiah Whitaker
- John White
- David Whitehead
- William Whittingham
- Giles Wigginton
- Michael Wigglesworth
- John Wilson
- John Winthrop
- Daniel Williams
- Roger Williams (theologian)
- George Wither (became Puritan from c. 1620)
- John Woodbridge
- Benjamin Woodbridge
- Robert Woodford
Y
See also
Sources
- Lives of the Puritans by Benjamin Brook and Daniel Neal's History of the Puritans
- Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640 (multi-vol series), Boston: New Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
- Beeke, Joel, and Randall Pederson, Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints, (Reformation Heritage Books, 2006) ISBN 978-1-60178-000-3
- Cross, Claire, The Puritan Earl, The Life of Henry Hastings, Third Earl of Huntingdon, 1536-1595, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1966.
- Albion's Seed, Four British Folkways in America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Morison, Samuel Eliot, Builders of the Bay Colony, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1930 (1981 reprint).
- Powell, Sumner Chilton, Puritan Village, The Formation of a New England Town, Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1963.
- Stavely, Keith W.F., Puritan Legacies, Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630-1890, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.