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Cotton Mather (1663–1728) was an early American Congregationalist leader in Boston.
** John Myles (c.1621–83) was a Welsh minister that matriculated at Oxford, and later founded the first Particular Baptist church in Wales (Ilston, Swansea; 1649). He emigrated to New England in 1662, where he established a new town and started the first Particular Baptist church in Massachusetts (Swansea; 1663).
I confess, there were some of those Persons, whose Names deserve to live in our Book for their Piety, although their particular opinions were such as to be disserviceable unto the declared and supposed Interests of our Churches. Of these there were some Godly Anabaptists; as namely, Mr. Hanserd Knollys,* (whom one of his adversaries called, Absurd Knowless) of Dover, who afterwards removing back to London, lately died there, a good Man, in a good old Age. And Mr. Miles of Swansey,** who afterwards came to Boston, and is now gone to his Rest. Both of these have a respectful Character in the Churches of this Wilderness.
[Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana: Or the Ecclesiastical History of New England; from its first Planting in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of our Lord 1698, (London: T. Parkhurst, 1702), 7.]
* Hanserd Knollys (1599–1691) was an English Particular Baptist and graduate of Cambridge, who lived in New England from 1636 to 1641. Having returned to London, he became a signatory to the revised Baptist Confession of Faith (1646).** John Myles (c.1621–83) was a Welsh minister that matriculated at Oxford, and later founded the first Particular Baptist church in Wales (Ilston, Swansea; 1649). He emigrated to New England in 1662, where he established a new town and started the first Particular Baptist church in Massachusetts (Swansea; 1663).
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