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John Eliot (c. 1604—21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called “the apostle to the Indians”[1][2][3] and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645.

Produced the first Bible published in America.

 

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Address: 20 Eustis Street
Boston
Massachusetts
02119
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