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John Davenport
John Davenport was an English Puritan minister who left London for New England in 1637 and in 1638 founded the New Haven Colony with the merchant Theophilus Eaton. He shaped its strict church-based government, in which only church members could vote. He opposed the colony's absorption into Connecticut in 1665 and later moved to Boston, where he died.
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