born probably July 7, 1586, Markfield, Leicestershire, Eng.
died July 7, 1647, Hartford, Conn.
Anglo-American colonial clergyman.
He held pastorates in England (1620–30), where he was attacked for Puritan leanings. He fled to Holland before emigrating to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633. As pastor of a company of Puritans, he moved them to Connecticut to settle Hartford in 1636. He helped frame the Fundamental Orders (1639), which later formed the basis of the Connecticut constitution.