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Leading Puritan minister in early Massachusetts Bay Colony who argued for a close alliance between church and civil government, making him the primary target of Roger Williams's arguments for church-state separation.
English Puritan minister whose bequest of his library and half his estate to the newly founded Massachusetts Bay Colony college led to it being named Harvard College.
Puritan minister and founder of Connecticut colony who argued for a more democratic basis for civil government than John Winthrop's oligarchic model.