John Eliot
Puritan missionary to the American Indians · Writers · Lived 1604 to 1690 · aged 85
John Eliot was a Puritan missionary to Native Americans who some called "the apostle to the Indians", and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645.
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In 1660 he completed the enormous task of translating the Eliot Indian Bible into the Massachusett language, producing more than two thousand completed copies.
