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John Wheelwright

c. 1592–1679 · 17th century

John Wheelwright was an English Puritan minister who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1636 and supported his sister-in-law Anne Hutchinson in the Antinomian Controversy. Banished in 1637, he founded Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1638, and later moved to Wells in Maine. He was eventually reconciled with the Massachusetts authorities and returned to serve as a minister there.

John Wheelwright — Image: attributed to John Coles Sr. (1749-1809) who copied the image from a c. 1677 portrait by an unknown artist. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Province of New Hampshire

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). John Wheelwright. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/john-wheelwright
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